re-use the retry value from table host entries for inbound relay

connections. the relay will retry to connect to the hosts for the
specified number of times. this sounds bad, but is a useful
"workaround" for unreliable backend servers...

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/usr.sbin/hoststated/relay.c b/usr.sbin/hoststated/relay.c
index 94fe7cc317f..9bb2714fbb4 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/hoststated/relay.c
+++ b/usr.sbin/hoststated/relay.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*	$OpenBSD: relay.c,v 1.6 2007/02/26 11:24:26 reyk Exp $	*/
+/*	$OpenBSD: relay.c,v 1.7 2007/02/26 11:59:48 reyk Exp $	*/
 
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2006, 2007 Reyk Floeter <reyk@openbsd.org>
@@ -1297,6 +1297,7 @@ relay_from_table(struct session *con)
 	fatalx("relay_from_table: no active hosts, desynchronized");
 
  found:
+	con->retry = host->retry;
 	con->out.port = table->port;
 	bcopy(&host->ss, &con->out.ss, sizeof(con->out.ss));
 
@@ -1368,8 +1369,17 @@ relay_connect(struct session *con)
 		con->out.port = rlay->dstport;
 	}
 
+ retry:
 	if ((con->out.s = relay_socket_connect(&con->out.ss, con->out.port,
 	    rlay->proto)) == -1) {
+		if (con->retry) {
+			con->retry--;
+			log_debug("relay_connect: session %d: "
+			    "forward failed: %s, %s",
+			    con->id, strerror(errno),
+			    con->retry ? "next retry" : "last retry");
+			goto retry;
+		}
 		log_debug("relay_connect: session %d: forward failed: %s",
 		    con->id, strerror(errno));
 		return (-1);