Unable to connect to server since client 2.7.3

Indeed, have become painfully aware. Until now that cluster was rock solid. Installed, and only needed to take it into maintenance once in 4 years to upgrade the disks. Will look at upgrading, but that will take some time as migrating from 2.1 directly to 4.x is not possible. If I recall well, I have to go through 2 intermediate versions, plus forced OS upgrades, and we might need another disk upgrade, as 3.x+ has shown to be having an approximately 3 times higher I/O load. And it all has to go through QA, and it all must be done without downtime, under load/live, and without data loss. In the meantime, I will try to debug this situation, will give feedback, and stick to 2.7.0 as client.