bird remote control - socket unexpectedly closed

[Kenth Eriksson]

On Fri, 2019-04-26 at 11:11 +0000, Kenth Eriksson wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-04-26 at 11:52 +0200, Maria Matějka wrote:
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> > Hello!
> > 
> > I don't know about any issue of this kind, anyway we don't test the
> > control socket to be open for a long time. Are you able to
> > reproduce
> > it in some way?
> > 
> I don't have a reliable way to reproduce it currently. I may have to
> do
> with a large configuration of static routes, but need to do more
> checking.
>  

Try the following to reproduce the error; create a large number of
static routes (~ 1000). Issue the configure command, and then invoke
the configure command again before the config is fully parsed by bird.
Or possibly configure command followed by show route. 

> > Thanks
> > Maria
> > 
> > On April 26, 2019 11:19:50 AM GMT+02:00, Kenth Eriksson <
> > Kenth.Eriksson at infinera.com> wrote: 
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > We are remote controlling a bird daemon using a unix domain
> > > socket.
> > > We
> > > have stumbled into an issue where it looks as bird closes the
> > > socket
> > > (application gets POLLHUP). Any known issues around this area?
> > > The
> > > pplication and bird daemon continues to run after this happens,
> > > but
> > > the
> > > socket is down.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Kenth
> > > 
> > >