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By default, DNS resolvers accept both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. This can be
influenced by the "resolve-prefer" keywords on server lines as well as the
family argument to the "do-resolve" action, but that is only a preference,
which does not block the other family from being used when it's alone. In
some environments where dual-stack is not usable, stumbling on an unreachable
IPv6-only DNS record can cause significant trouble as it will replace a
previous IPv4 one which would possibly have continued to work till next
request. The "dns-accept-family" global option permits to enforce usage of
only one (or both) address families. The argument is a comma-delimited list
of the following words:
- "ipv4": query and accept IPv4 addresses ("A" records)
- "ipv6": query and accept IPv6 addresses ("AAAA" records)
When a single family is used, no request will be sent to resolvers for the
other family, and any response for the othe family will be ignored. The
default value is "ipv4,ipv6", which effectively enables both families.
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.