# Clients unable to reconnect to servers

**URL:** <https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/clients-unable-to-reconnect-to-servers/76616>\
**Category:** Nomad\
**Tags:** connect\
**Created:** [October 7, 2025, 12:22pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/clients-unable-to-reconnect-to-servers/76616 "2025-10-07T12:22:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![iamoric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3ec8ea/32.png) [@iamoric](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/iamoric)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2025, 12:22pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/clients-unable-to-reconnect-to-servers/76616/1 "2025-10-07T12:22:33Z")

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Hello

I have a cluster of 3 Nomad servers and 3 Nomad clients. Everything is running well until I refresh the servers.

When I refresh the servers (restart one by one the instances), I can see in clients’ logs:

```auto
[ERROR] client.rpc: error performing RPC to server: error="rpc error: Permission denied" rpc=Status.Members server=10.43.2.239:4647
[ERROR] client.rpc: error performing RPC to server which is not safe to automatically retry: error="rpc error: Permission denied" rpc=Status.Members server=10.43.2.239:4647

```

`10.43.2.239`is the IP of one of the new servers.

I’m using cloud auto-join with AWS provider, and the config seems to be ok since it works well with a deployment from scratch (clients correctly connect to servers **when clients are deployed after servers** )

Could you explain to me what these logs mean and how to resolve the issue?

I can provide more configuration if needed, but I don’t know what is useful for helping.

Thanks