[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ very slow (or never) shuts down

[Tim Watson]

Matt

On 13 Sep 2012, at 12:02, Simon MacMullen wrote:

> On 13/09/12 01:00, Matt Pietrek wrote:
>> {socket_error,etimedout}
> 
> So I think this is the interesting bit.
> 
> Clearly we should not be hanging around waiting for sockets to time out during shutdown (these are client sockets BTW, i.e. for federation links). But is there some sort of firewall or network weirdness that could be causing these timeouts?

Is it a possibility that firewall/network configuration between the two nodes is causing packets to get dropped?