[389-users] sasl_io_start_packet: failed - read only 3 bytes of 4

[Rich Megginson]

Edward Z. Yang wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> We're running into this error message on a full update between two
> dirsrvs of version:
>
> 389 Project
> 389-Directory/1.2.6 B2010.238.2133
>
> The error message is:
>
> [26/Sep/2010:15:03:35 -0400] - sasl_io_start_packet: failed - read only 3
> bytes of sasl packet length on connection 4
>
> According to the source code:
>
> /*
>  * NOTE: A better way to do this would be to read the bytes and add them to·
>  * sp->encrypted_buffer - if offset < 4, tell caller we didn't read enough
>  * bytes yet - if offset >= 4, decode the length and proceed.  However, it
>  * is highly unlikely that a request to read 4 bytes will return < 4 bytes,
>  * perhaps only in error conditions, in which case the ret < 0 case above
>  * will run
>  */
>
> Uh. Maybe our network is strange, maybe we've run into a different error
> condition, but this seems quite poor...
>   
Ok.  Please file a bug for this issue.
Are you using a load balancer or failover device?
> Cheers,
> Edward
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