Re: Strange Not Found (URL was not found on this server) problem with backhand

"Rama K. McIntosh" <[email protected]> Sat, 10 Jan 2004 00:22:56 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-backhand.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Theo Schlossnagle wrote:

> When you kill Apache one machine, backhand doesn't care.  It knows the 
> machine existed and will continue to direct traffic to it, unless one 
> of your rules says not to.  That is why the byAge rule exists and 
> _should always_ come first in any rule set.  So, make sure you are 
> using byAge and then byRandom and not just byRandom by itself.
>
> byAge will make sure that servers you haven't heard from in a "while" 
> are no longer eligible to be backhanded to.  The default is 5 seconds, 
> but you can specify the max age you want -- see the docs.

Thank you Theo.  This fixed my probem.

-Rama