[rabbitmq-discuss] Restarting/re-establising failed federation connections

[Matthias Radestock]

David,

On 20/07/12 01:58, David Gillies wrote:
> After leaving the downstream servers to (supposedly) reconnect for hours
> (I think the longest I've left them is approximately 36 hours without
> intervention) I see no messages leaving the upstream queue and
> eventually the filesystem fills up from queue banking up (I've set a TTL
> on the queue for now but I'd rather not have to do that).

As I mentioned to Michael, I suggest you enable heartbeats in your 
federation config.

Matthias.