Hi Tommaso, OK, I created a setup similar to yours. Specifically, in the DNS I have: abh-rdr.slac.stanford.edu. 600 IN A 134.79.120.146 // noric35 abh-rdr.slac.stanford.edu. 600 IN A 134.79.120.152 // noric40 I started a redirector on noric35 and left noric40 with nothing. I then did an xrdcp (using the old client) and it worked as expected (see the trace below). Some things to consider: 1) Was your DNS setup up as mine was (i.e. using A records)? 2) What was the release you were using? I used what is now R4 and 3.2.6 (a much older release) with identical results. The recoery code was not changed in the 3.2.x or the 3.3.x series. So, no suprise. My only assumption is that the DNS record was not setup in a way that the client expected (though, the trace seems to counter that notion). So, at the moment I am at a loss. Anyway, to cut down the only tracing chatter so as to make the output more readable, just use -d 1 which is good enough. Andy ./xrdcp -f -d 1 root://abh-rdr.slac.stanford.edu//tmp/motd /tmp/motd 140418 19:38:24 28376 Xrd: main: (C) 2004-2011 by the XRootD collaboration. Version: v20140318-ef1e4ab 140418 19:38:24 28376 Xrd: Create: (C) 2004-2010 by the Xrootd group. XrdClient $Revision$ - Xrootd version: v20140321-cdb721c 140418 19:38:24 28376 Xrd: ShowUrls: The converted URLs count is 2 140418 19:38:24 28376 Xrd: ShowUrls: URL n.1: root://noric40.slac.stanford.edu:1094//tmp/motd. 140418 19:38:24 28376 Xrd: ShowUrls: URL n.2: root://noric35.slac.stanford.edu:1094//tmp/motd. 140418 19:38:24 28376 Xrd: ShowUrls: The converted URLs count is 2 140418 19:38:24 28376 Xrd: ShowUrls: URL n.1: root://noric35.slac.stanford.edu:1094//tmp/motd. 140418 19:38:24 28376 Xrd: ShowUrls: URL n.2: root://noric40.slac.stanford.edu:1094//tmp/motd. 140418 19:38:24 28376 Xrd: Connect: can't open connection to [noric40.slac.stanford.edu:1094] 140418 19:38:24 28376 Xrd: XrdNetFile: Error creating logical connection to noric40.slac.stanford.edu:1094 140418 19:38:24 28376 Xrd: Open: Connection attempt failed. Sleeping 5 seconds. 140418 19:38:29 28376 Xrd: ShowUrls: The converted URLs count is 2 140418 19:38:29 28376 Xrd: ShowUrls: URL n.1: root://noric40.slac.stanford.edu:1094//tmp/motd. 140418 19:38:29 28376 Xrd: ShowUrls: URL n.2: root://noric35.slac.stanford.edu:1094//tmp/motd. 140418 19:38:29 28376 Xrd: Open: Access to server granted. 140418 19:38:29 28376 Xrd: Open: Opening the remote file /tmp/motd 140418 19:38:29 28376 Xrd: Open: File open in progress. 140418 19:38:29 28379 Xrd: HandleServerError: Received redirection to [rhel6-64b.slac.stanford.edu:1094]. Token=[]]. Opaque=[]. 140418 19:38:29 28376 Xrd: main: root://abh-rdr.slac.stanford.edu//tmp/motd --> /tmp/motd 140418 19:38:29 28381 Xrd: Read: Hole in the cache: offs=0, len=1536 [xrootd] Total 0.00 MB |====================| 100.00 % [inf MB/s] ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-L&A=1