[rabbitmq-discuss] Unintended message flow using federation?

Thu Sep 13 17:18:48 BST 2012

Thanks for the quick reply Simon.

While I was hoping it was just something I'd messed up, I'm still glad that
it's a known issue and that there are plans to resolve it. In the short
term I believe we're OK living with this behavior.

Matt

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Simon MacMullen <simon at rabbitmq.com> wrote:

> Hi Matt. This is a limitation in the federation binding logic that we've
> recently noticed - bindings get transmitted "too far" upstream. We're
> hoping to get it fixed in the next major release.
>
> Cheers, Simon
>
>
> On 12/09/12 23:57, Matt Pietrek wrote:
>
>> I'm using federation with a topic exchange between two RabbitMQ nodes.
>> As part of this, I've defined an exchange, 'skytap' which is a topic
>> exchange (yes, I know it's not *really* a topic exchange).
>>
>> The upstream sets for the skytap exchange are pointed to each other, as
>> described in the Federation doc as a "Pair of federated exchanges". For
>> routing keys, I'm using something of the form "foo.XXX", where XXX is
>> either 'east' or 'west'.
>>
>> On server 'A', I have a queue 'foo' bound to the skytap exchange, using
>> a routing key of 'foo.west'. On server 'B', I have a queue 'foo' bound
>> to the skytap exchange, using a routing key of 'foo.east'.
>>
>> This all generally works as expected. In particular, I have a client app
>> running on server 'A' that publishes using the 'foo.west' routing key.
>> In other words, everything should be happening locally to server 'A'.
>>
>> However, via the Management Web UI, I'm noticing that there seems to be
>> message traffic to server 'B'. In particular, on the Exchanges tab for
>> server 'B' if I select the 'skytap' exchange, I see:
>>
>> Channel                                  | publish  | confirm
>> <rabbit at xxx.3.299.0> (1)       | 20/s      | 20/s
>>
>> However (as I'd expect), no messages go into the 'foo' queue (or any
>> other queue) on server 'B'. Likewise, on the queue tab of server 'A',
>> the queue named "skytap -> rabbit at serverA.blah.blah", shows
>> incoming/deliver/ack rates of 20/s as well.
>>
>> This runs counter to what I'd expect from reading the Federation doc,
>> specifically: "Therefore the federated exchange only receives messages
>> for which it has a subscription."
>>
>> Am I misunderstanding something, or perhaps don't have things configured
>> optimally?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>>
>>
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