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Treat broken Serf connection as a fatal condition

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
distributed-systems

Research direction

Start by locating catalyst-node's Serf connection handling and reviewing the linked timeout logs for repeated failures to 127.0.0.1:7373. Done means transient connection failures remain tolerated, while a Serf connection that stays broken for a meaningful period causes the node to crash.

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Description

I'm unsure why this happens, but catalyst-node can get into a state where it keeps getting timeouts from 127.0.0.1:7373 when it's trying to connect to Serf. While it might be undesirable to crash immediately in such cases, Serf being broken for any meaningful length of time should be treated as a fatal condition and crash the node.

Dominant language
Go
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24
Forks
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