VIP reallocation and opened TCP connection
ahmed maouche <[email protected]> Tue, 27 May 2003 14:57:47 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.apache.mod-wackamole.general |
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I want to know if this case can occur: We have two hosts (A and B )running wackamole and managing three Virtual IP Ip1 and Ip2 and Ip3. These VIP are exposed via DNS for the myserver.example.com. On each host, we have a web server. We use a DNS (round robin ) to reach servers. In the first state, A and B are running well with wackamole. We want to add a new host C ( it's the same case when restarting a host that has failed). Let's consider this use case: 1- A client (web browser )establish a TCP socket connection with web server in host A via Ip1. (it may bee a long request ) 2- An administrator start a web server, spread and wackamole on host C. 3- wackamole reallocate Ip1 to host C before the end of client request. Questions : what happen to the socket opened by the client with Ip1 on host A? Is there any check for TCP connection opened before reallocation ? Thanks for help