Upstream (fair) with dead servers

[Kamil Gorlo]

2009/7/9 Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 04:47:43PM +0200, Kamil Gorlo wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have (possibly quite rare) situation where I have one upstream with
>> two servers and I know that in any particular moment only one of those
>> servers is running:
>>
>> upstream blah {
>>     server server1; // when working, server2 is dead
>>     server server2; // when working, server1 is dead
>> }
>>
>> So, what I need is that Nginx will choose working backend (in this
>> upstream), remembers it and choose it for every request till some
>> failure on this server occurs. Then it tries other server in upstream,
>> till it finds some working - and situation repeats. Is this possible?
>
> No, nginx will send request on both servers in round robin mode.
> If one of them will fails, then nginx will resend the failed request
> to another server and mark the server as dead for fail_timeout time.

Hmm, what about situation when all servers are marked as dead? Nginx
will wait till fail_timeout expires for some server and in meantime
return error to client? Or will try dead servers?

Also, is it hard to write such a "upstream-chooser" which will work as
I described?

>> Maybe upstream_fair module with option no_rr will work for me (I am not sure)?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Kamil Gorlo
>
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> Igor Sysoev
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