Re: Supose there are no real servers...

["Lorn Kay" <lorn_kay@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> What should be the behaviour?
> If we think of a simple cenario where there is a only a single realserver,
> the lvs can be tought as a router.
> If it was a router, and there was no machine to route to (because it was
> down) I think a client would receive a "icmp no destination found" or
> similar.
> I've testes with my lvs-dr setup and the client stalls trying to connect...
> I think the above behaviour would make more sense...
> Well, just wanted to do the question, feel free to find it a bug, a 
> feature,
> or simply kick my butt if what I'm saying is nonsense.. (altough in that
> case I would like to understand why it is nonsense)
Checkout the "fallback=" option in the Ldirectord configuration file. This 
lets you redirect users to another place (usually the loopback address for a 
locally running daemon on a Director using LocalNode mode) when the Real 
Servers aren't working.
--K

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