Balancer Algorithms

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:08:05PM +0000, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:

> Hi,
> > so this should work:
> >
> > upstream  backend  {
> >    server   backend1.example.com;
> >    server   backend2.example.com backup;
> > }
> 
> That looks good.  If I add backend3.example.com backup, I assume that
> is used only if backed2 fails.

No, your assumption is wrong.  All servers with backup flag are 
activated if all servers without backup flag are dead.

Maxim Dounin