Slow redirect by mod_oc4j during network failover - 10g R2

I have successfully installed two OracleAS 10g application server instances (app1, app2) on two machines and added both instances to a cluster (cluster1). Each application server contains a single OC4J instance (home) with a single OC4J process. I have enabled state replication of my web application (MyApp) and edited its web deployment descriptor to contain the <distributable/> tag necessary for state replication.
On a third machine, I have also installed the stand-alone Oracle HTTP Server (1.3) w/ mod_oc4j acting as a load balancer between the OC4J instances on my app servers. My mod_oc4j is successfully routing requests to both instances. The only parameter entries in my mod_oc4j.conf file are:
Oc4jMount /MyApp/ cluster://cluster1:home
Oc4jMount /MyApp/* cluster://cluster1:home
My PROBLEM: During testing, when one of my app servers experiences a network failure (disconnected cable), the user being served by that app server isn't redirected until 10 minutes after submitting a request. There is no timeout of any kind. The browser just waits for the response and the mod_oc4j plugin seems to keep attempting to connect to the disconnected server. Eventually, about 8-1/2 to 12-1/2 minutes pass, mod_oc4j finally gives up and the user gets redirected to the only other available machine, with his/her session intact :-). This problem ONLY occurs if the 'outage' is network related. If I were to shut down/power off one of my app servers instead of disconnecting it, the user is redirected to the other server instantly.
Can anyone shed some light on why mod_oc4j doesn't seem to be handling network outages very well?
All machines are Windows Server 2003 Enterprise w/ SP1.

It seems that i have the same problem. Any help welcome
Thanks
renaud

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