Re: 答复: Re: having nginx listen the same port more than once

[Vladimir Homutov]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 04:09:10PM +0800, he.hailong5 at zte.com.cn wrote:
> now I understand the duplicate listen ports configured in the http
> block can be used to implement virtual hosts.
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> but what's the purpose to allow this in the stream block? in my
> practise (with 1.9.15.1), nginx will randomly select a backend to
> serve the tcp/udp request which seems useless.

yes, in stream it does not make sense and was not intented to work.
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> b.t.w, I also tried with 1.11.x today, looks like configuring
> duplicate listen ports in stream block is forbidden.

correct, this was fixed by this commit: http://hg.nginx.org/nginx/rev/68854ce64ec7