Quote from: EnzoMatrix on July 22, 2011, 08:25:46 PM

Hello,

I am not sure if it is something I am going wrong but I am unable to trigger the failover

I have a profiles setup to mine on 3 different server on the same pool and I have tried simulating an outage using /etc/hosts file but it never fails over is there any specific data that might help in locating this.. ? it is a fresh smartcoin install

Smartcoin r495s

here is the failover order
1 was a deleted profile

2) BTCGuild All
3) BTCGuild US
4) BTCGuild USWest
5) BTCGuild USEast
6) BitClockers

/etc/hosts is not the correct way to do this for testing (I think it will work with a reboot, but still a real pain)

Use iptables to fake a domain being down. Here is an example to add a rule to block things to X8S:

Block:

Code:

sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m string --string "x8s.de" --algo kmp -j DROP

(in my experience, it will take 30 seconds or so sometimes before the packets will start dropping, and you see <>> in the smartcoin display)

To unblock it after testing, first you have to get an index number:

Code:

sudo iptables -L OUTPUT --line-numbers

make note of the number of the rule to delete for the next command...
then remove the rule by:

Code:

sudo iptables -D OUTPUT #

(replace # above with the rule number to delete)

For testing failover, the first criteria is that an instance shows "<<>>" for the number of iterations listed in the settings (default 10). This is about a minute or so...