Github user sohami commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/578#discussion_r101175920 --- Diff: exec/java-exec/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/client/DrillClient.java --- @@ -435,9 +427,14 @@ public synchronized boolean reconnect() { } private void connect(DrillbitEndpoint endpoint) throws RpcException { - final FutureHandler f = new FutureHandler(); - client.connect(f, endpoint, props, getUserCredentials()); - f.checkedGet(); + client.connect(endpoint, properties, getUserCredentials()).checkedGet(); + if (client.serverRequiresAuthentication()) { + try { + client.authenticate(null).checkedGet(); + } catch (SaslException e) { + throw new RpcException(e); + } --- End diff -- Originally if client fail's to connect to server because of Authentication failure, then it doesn't retry since `InvalidConnectionInfoException` is thrown and handled separately. But If authentication using SASL fails then we are always throwing `RpcException` and we will end up doing retry. We should have a check for exception thrown by SASL authentication failure and doesn't do retry in that scenario as well.
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