> What this directive in place, when one reverse proxy is down, half the > requests take 0.2sec to return and half take 2.2sec to return. This is > good enough for me. :) You should consider using "max_fails" and "fail_timeout": http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpUpstreamModule#server Best regards, Piotr Sikora < piotr.sikora at frickle.com >