Keepalived Connections Reset after reloading the configuration (HUP Signal)

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 07:24:12PM -0400, Jocelyn Mocquant wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>    I'm dealing with a problem. When reloading the nginx configuration,
> all keepalived connections receive the  TCP reset flag after I send a
> HUP signal to the master process. If I comment the line responsible for
> enabling the keepalive feature in the configuration, the problem
> disappear (nginx version is 0.9.7). 

On configuration reloading nginx starts new worker processes with 
new configuration and old worker processes are terminated as soon 
as they finish processing of requests.  All keepalive connections 
in old workers are closed accordingly.  HTTP/1.1 clients are 
required to handle keepalive connection close, so this shoudln't 
be a problem.

It's not clear why you see RST instead of normal close with 
FIN/FIN+ACK/ACK (are you?), but this shouldn't the problem by 
itself anyway.

Maxim Dounin