Hi all, anyone having any problems with restarting the director? Every time I 
bring down 1 of the director servers, reboot it, or just restart it for 
whatever reason, im seeing all kinds of problems. Dovecot generally always 
gives me this error:

Jan 20 22:49:55 imapdirector3 dovecot: director: Error: Director 
194.109.26.173:444/right disconnected before handshake finished

It seems the directors cant agree on forming a ring anymore, and this may be 
leading to problems with clients. I mostly have to resort to bringing down all 
directors, and restarting them all at once. Not really a workable solution.  As 
an example, last night for a few hours we were getting complaints from 
customers about being disconnected, and the only obvious error in the log was 
the one above, after one of my colleagues had to restart a director because of 
some changes in the syslog daemon. After I restarted all directors withing a 
few seconds of each other, all complaints disappeared.

Timo, i know ive asked similar questions before, but the answer just eludes me. 

If I have 3 director servers, and need to take one down and restart it, what is 
the proper method to reconnect the ring? In practice, I cant seem to work it 
out and I mostly end up with the above error until I just restart them all. Not 
fun with 20.000 clients connected.

Cor

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