Achieving strong client -> upstrem_server affinity

[Srirang Doddihal]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:52 AM, Alexandr Gomoliako <zzz at zzz.org.ua> wrote:
>> I am using ip_hash to make sure that a client will always be served by
>> the same upstream server. This is essential.
>
>> 1) Despite ip_hash being specified the request from a particular
>> client IP sometimes (close to 7% of requests) get routed to a second
>> upstream server
>
>> 2) Despute proxy_next_upstream off; some requests (about 5%) are tried
>> over multiple upstream servers.
>
>> how do I go about fixing these?
>
> With a little help from perl :)
> Check out this example: https://gist.github.com/2124034
> It decides which upstream to use by hashing $r->uri, but you can
> replace it with $r->remote_addr


Perl.. ouch.!!. :)

I was hoping it wouldn't come to that.

So does that mean ip_hash works on a best effort basis and doesn't
always ensure that requests from a particular remote_addr go the same
upstream server?

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