Re: Real servers under multiple virtual services (heartbeat-1.2.3)

[Henrik Holst <henrik.h@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear fellow LTS users and hackers,

>  I once complained that it was impossible to add one real server under 
> multiple virtual services with the ldirectod version included with the 
> heartbetat-1.2.2 package. I Saw that this was fixed in the 1.2.3 
> release so I downloaded and installed it and now it works, but there 
> is still some quirks left.
> If I have something like this:
>
> virtual test:7700
>    real server1:7700
>    real server2:7700
>
> virtual test:7701
>    real server1:7700
>
> virtual test:7702
>    real server2:7700
>
> then ldirectord will add these as:
>
> test:7700 ->
>    server1:7700
>    server2:7700
>
> test:7701 ->
>    server1:7700
>    server1:7701
>
> test:7702 ->
>    server2:7700
>    server2:7701
>
> then a "touch /etc/ha.cf/ldirectord.conf" sometimes make the errenous 
> entries go away. This in itself is not a problem because the errenous 
> entries are added with weight set to zero so they are never put into 
> load-balancing, but what is more of a problem is the following config:
> virtual test:7700
>    real server1:7710
>
> ldirector will add this as:
>
> test:7700 ->
>    server1:7700
>
> It turns out that if there has been no virtual test:7710 added then it 
> refuses to add a real server to that port, and I have to add that 
> manually with "ipvsadm" something that can be quite problematic when 
> the main node dies.
> For some strange reason I cannot seam to find the ldirector projekt 
> homepage with google so I cannot see if there is any version of 
> ldirectord that has this bug/feature corrected.
> /Henrik Holst
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