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  • It is important to stop all the connections to the failing master and if that server is not responding, maybe because of a network problem, a stonith device must be used to fence it.

    Planet MySQL 2009

  • One approach is to kill the (allegedly misbehaving) node, i.e. Shoot The Other Node In The Head, or STONITH for short.

    STONITH Deathmatch Explained | Ourobengr Ourobengr 2023

  • STONITH ("Shoot The Other Node In The Head" or "Shoot The Offending Node In The Head"), sometimes called STOMITH ("Shoot The Other Member/Machine In The Head"), is a technique for fencing in computer clusters.

    STONITH - Wikipedia Contributors to Wikimedia projects 2022

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