Connection problems with bbproxy

["Kasperowicz, Shaun (Contractor)" <shaun.kasperowicz (at) xo.com>]

Hello,

I have a BB server (and clients) running 1.8b.  Most of our systems are
inside the firewall and are monitored easily.  For the few external
servers we used bbfetch with good results for several years.  Recently
we added a large amount of servers outside the private network, which
caused some bottlenecking and performance issues with bbfetch, so I
decided to try bbproxy.

So far I have been able to make the external clients send to the bbproxy
server, and the bbproxy server can make contact through the firewall to
the BBDISPLAY server on tcp1984.  However, the BBDISPLAY server is not
doing anything with the data.  Both the bbproxy and the external client
are in bb-hosts, and I can see tcp connections being made on both ends
via snoop.  I also don't see any errors in BBOUT, even when I run bbd in
debug mode.  I've eliminated the firewall as well, and still have the
same results.

This is how I am starting bbproxy:

/opt/bb/bin/bbproxy \
--bbdisplay=10.88.19.48 \
--pidfile=/var/run/bbproxy.pid \
--logfile=/opt/bb/tmp/bbproxy.log \
--log-details \
--debug

And this is what I see when I tail the bbproxy logs:

2005-08-08 16:48:12 10.88.19.38 : status btndev8.disk
2005-08-08 16:48:14 10.88.19.38 : status btndev8.top
2005-08-08 16:48:38 Server not responding, message lost
2005-08-08 16:48:38 Server not responding, message lost
2005-08-08 16:48:38 Server not responding, message lost
2005-08-08 16:48:38 Server not responding, message lost
2005-08-08 16:48:40 Server not responding, message lost

Has anyone run into this before?  Do I need to be running BB/Hobbit on
the proxy server too?  Any insight is appreciated.

Thanks,

-Shaun Kasperowicz