IdP stopping metadata retrieval

[Glenn Wearen]

I noticed the same experience on 2.4.0 and slightly older versions.
Glenn

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On 14 Nov 2013, at 08:50, Martin Haase wrote:

> Hi,
> this happened on two schools we support, one with 2.3.6 and one with
> 2.4.0. The IdPs were otherwise healthy and working for months, but
> stopped to retrieve metadata for 3 different URLs at the same time.
> Environment is CentOS 5, Tomcat 6 prepped by Apache2.2. The two schools
> are in separate net segments. The 2.4.0 school is a terracotta-cluster
> of two, here only one instance is affected. Pretty default configuration
> for FileBackedHTTPMetadataProvider. The metadata signing certs are still
> valid. When I restarted Tomcat, metadata were fetched fresh again.
> I can only see one suspicious item: The time stamps of the metadata
> backup files was Nov 4. At that time, I see in the logs that one
> metadata source was unavailable temporarily, "Error retrieving
> metadata". After that time, I cannot grep any occurences of "metadata"
> in the process log.
> Do you have an idea?
> Cheers,
> Martin
> 
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