Hold requests long enough for me to restart upstream?

[mike]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Cliff Wells <cliff at develix.com> wrote:

> This won't work.  The problem is that his backend isn't unresponsive,
> it's *down*.   That is, the backend socket isn't even open.   Timeouts
> are for sockets that are "open but unresponsive", not sockets that are
> "closed".
>
> In this case Nginx would try each backend and *instantly* go to the next
> one until it ran out of backends and then it would throw a 50x error.

Idea: perhaps a directive to tell it how long to wait before skipping
to the next one for actual connection refused errors? (I would imagine
that would be what fail_timeout is... I figured -any- failure is
considered)

Hrm.