[ZOOKEEPER-2849] Quorum port binding needs exponential back-off retry

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.4.6, 3.5.3
• Component/s: quorum
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Brian Lininger
• Reporter: Brian Lininger
• Created: 20/Jul/17 16:20
• Updated: 28/Mar/20 15:08

Description

Recently we upgraded the AWS instance type we use for running out ZooKeeper nodes, and by doing so we're intermittently hitting an issue where ZooKeeper cannot bind to the server election port because the IP is incorrect. This is due to name resolution in Route53 not being in sync when ZooKeeper starts on the more powerful EC2 instances. Currently in QuorumCnxManager.Listener, we only attempt to bind 3 times with a 1s sleep between retries, which is not long enough.

I'm proposing to change this to follow an exponential back-off type strategy where each failed attempt causes a longer sleep between retry attempts. This would allow for Zookeeper to gracefully recover when the host is misconfigured, and subsequently corrected, without requiring the process to be restarted while also minimizing the impact to the running instance.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #419