This is a complementary patch to c16eba818 ("BUG/MEDIUM: server/dns: preserve server's port upon resolution timeout or error"). Indeed, since c16eba818, the port is properly preserved, but unsetting server's address this way results in server_atomic_sync() function thinking that we're actually setting a new address and not unsetting the previous one because addr family is != AF_UNSPEC. Upon DNS timeout, this could be observed: [WARNING] (2588257) : Server http/s1 is going DOWN for maintenance (DNS timeout status). 0 active and 0 backup servers left. 0 sessions active, 0 requeued, 0 remaining in queue. [WARNING] (2588257) : Server http/s1 ('test1.localhost') is UP/READY (resolves again). Notice that server timeouts and then immediately resolves again. Of course in this case case the server's address was properly set to 0, meaning that the server will not receive any traffic, but it is confusing and could result in haproxy temporarily thinking that the server is actually available while it's not. To properly fix the issue and restore historical behavior, let's explicitly set inetaddr's family to AF_UNSPEC after fetching original server's address. It should be backported in 3.0 with c16eba818.
HAProxy
HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.
Installation
The INSTALL file describes how to build HAProxy. A list of packages is also available on the wiki.
Getting help
The discourse and the mailing-list are available for questions or configuration assistance. You can also use the slack or IRC channel. Please don't use the issue tracker for these.
The issue tracker is only for bug reports or feature requests.
Documentation
The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. It is available in text format as well as HTML. The wiki is also meant to replace the old architecture guide.
Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for:
- INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy
- BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use
- LICENSE for the project's license
- CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions
The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory:
- doc/intro.txt for a quick introduction on HAProxy
- doc/configuration.txt for the configuration's reference manual
- doc/lua.txt for the Lua's reference manual
- doc/SPOE.txt for how to use the SPOE engine
- doc/network-namespaces.txt for how to use network namespaces under Linux
- doc/management.txt for the management guide
- doc/regression-testing.txt for how to use the regression testing suite
- doc/peers.txt for the peers protocol reference
- doc/coding-style.txt for how to adopt HAProxy's coding style
- doc/internals for developer-specific documentation (not all up to date)
License
HAProxy is licensed under GPL 2 or any later version, the headers under LGPL 2.1. See the LICENSE file for a more detailed explanation.