In message <9031.1311786432.357811@puncture>, Dave Cridland writes: > On Wed Jul 27 06:25:49 2011, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:28:06AM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > > SRV provides load-balancing and failover. I never said that SRV > > is a > > > > solution for temporaly put in maintenance a server. > > > > > > Happy eyeballs however does allow you to take a server out of > > production > > > and not really notice it. Note webbrowsers have had the ability > > to do > > > this for as long as webbrowsers have existed. > > > > Mark, could you elaborate on this point ? Surely you're not talking > > about > > the fact that a browser retries a failed connection, but I'm not > > not sure > > what mechanism you're talking about. > > Happy eyeballs - try everything as soon as you can, in parallel. Drop > everything else when one does. More correctly it is try the first address and if that doesn't connect in a short period (150...250ms) start a second connection to the next address while continuing with the first. If you have more that 2 address you do something similar for the next one (I use 1/2 the original timeout, but that is a implementation detail). You continue to use the address that works for that session. You drop any other connections to other addresses that complete. You get fast failover without lots of extra connection attempts with the advantage that you detect and recover from network failures that only affect the client. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf