Re: Bleed-over between VIPs? Connection routing issue?

Kelly Corbin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.highavailability.ultramonkey
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The load balancers and clients are all RHEL 3, kernel ver. 2.4.21-32.0.1.EL

Kelly

Horms wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 12:53:52PM -0500, Kelly Corbin wrote:
> 
>>I'm having a strange issue that I've been unable to figure out the last 
>>few days.
>>My setup consists of a load balancer and 6 real servers in the High 
>>Capacity High Availability and Load Balancing configuration.  I've been 
>>running in this configuration for several years now with mostly flawless 
>>service.
>>
>>All of the real servers are configured exactly the same with one small 
>>exception.  To facilitate testing, in the load balancer I've set 2 of 
>>the web servers to be served by a different VIP than the 4 "production" 
>>web servers.  All of the web servers are setup with both of the VIPs 
>>however.  Normally, I set the apache conf to be identical on all the 
>>servers regardless of whether they will be hosting the test domains or 
>>not but this time I happened to not enable them on the production 
>>servers which allowed me to catch this problem easier.
>>
>>Every now and then (maybe 1 in 10-50 clicks) I will get the default page 
>>for one of the random production web servers.
>>
>>At first I thought this was an ARPing issue but after checking 
>>everything thoroughly, the real servers are not ARPing for the VIPs.
>>
>>After much log-watching, I've found that it usually (but not always) 
>>coincides with removing or quiescing real servers or when adding the 
>>fall back (127.0.0.1 on the load balancer).  It seems that connections 
>>are being briefly routed incorrectly in the instant between when a 
>>server is removed and at other various seemingly random times.
>>
>>I've turned quiescent on and off and persistence off and on as an 
>>attempted work-around but the problem still continues.  Oddly enough, I 
>>don't see this happening with my other VIPs (i.e. the production domains 
>>are not inadvertently being routed to the test servers).
>>
>>Has anyone seen this before?  I'm trying to figure out how this could 
>>possibly happen.
> 
> 
> That does seem quite strange. I suspect that you are seeing
> a bug in LVS, which kernel are you running?
> 

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