Huh.. this was in my sent folder... let's try again. There's something missing from this picture. The logs show that the client is connecting to both servers, but it only shows the disconnection from one and claims that it's not connected to any bricks after that. Here's the data I'd like to have you generate: unmount the clients gluster volume set firewall-scripts diagnostics.client-log-level DEBUG gluster volume set firewall-scripts diagnostics.brick-log-level DEBUG systemctl stop glusterd.service truncate the client, glusterd, and server logs systemctl start glusterd mount /firewall-scripts Do your iptables disconnect telnet $this_host_ip 24007 # report whether or not it establishes a connection ls /firewall-scripts wait 42 seconds ls /firewall-scripts Remove the iptables rule ls /firewall-scripts tar up the logs and email them to me. You can reset the log-level: gluster volume reset firewall-scripts diagnostics.client-log-level gluster volume reset firewall-scripts diagnostics.brick-log-level lastly, do you have a loopback interface (lo) on 127.0.0.1 and is localhost defined in /etc/hosts? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://supercolony.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20130713/98f2c3bf/attachment.html>