On windows, using a DNS hostname in redisWorker causes long-running jobs to all timeout

[patcpsc]

On windows, there's no lookup in alive.c to find the remote host IP. So specifying "localhost" as the default host causes the "alive" tag writing to fail. This means the master detects all long-running jobs as failures, then restarts them despite the worker finishing them.

[bwlewis]

Hi, sorry for the latency--been on vacation!

This bug you've encountered is confusing. I think the host lookup is OK. gethostbyname is deprecated in Windows, in favor of getaddrinfo, which is used in the alive.c code. See for example:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms738524(v=vs.85).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms738520(v=vs.85).aspx

So now I wonder where the problem is? Any ideas?
Thanks again for the fix to rredis, greatly appreciated!

[bwlewis]

sorry, accidentally hit close instead of comment