I have a pair of JBOSS 3.2.5 / Solaris 9 servers in a cluster.
The client fails over to the second instance very quickly if one server is stopped. However, if I power down one server, it takes several minutes to fail over to the other server.
I bring up the server without starting the jboss instance and it fails over quickly again.
It seems to wait really long if a IP is unreachable but not the IP address is reachable but the instance is not.
I appear to be missing something very fundamental ?