(imported topic written by MattBoyd)
We use automatic relay selection on almost all of our clients. To prevent clients from hammering the root BES server, we use relay affiliation lists. This has worked well for the most part. However, we’ve started noticing that clients that have been in standby for several hours select the central BES server almost immediately after waking up. The only thing I can come up with is that they may be having trouble with relay selection while the network connection is in limbo at wakeup.
If I deploy a “relay select” command on the clients that incorrectly selected the BES relay, they use another relay based on affiliation.
To work around this we’re thinking of deploying a policy that forces clients connecting to the BES root server relay to do another relay select every 30 minutes instead of the default (6 hours). Is this a plausible solution, or should I be looking at something else.