On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM Yann Ylavic <ylavic....@gmail.com> wrote: > > However it seems that [4] will cause worker->s->is_address_reusable = > 0 in [3] (i.e. disable DNS reuse altogether) which is not really > expected, and would explain why the pool is cleared in > connection_cleanup(). > > [3] > https://github.com/apache/httpd/blob/2.4.63/modules/proxy/proxy_util.c#L1989-L2034 > [4] > https://github.com/apache/httpd/blob/2.4.63/modules/proxy/proxy_util.c#L2140-L2159
I think we need something like the attached patch to not let the ->disablereuse=1 in [4] (because of a $-substitution including outside hostname[:port]) force ->is_address_reusable=0 in [3] implicitly. The rationale is that before 2.4.59 ->is_address_reusable and ->disablereuse were kind of the same thing (the former, not configurable, was set from the latter), but since 2.4.59 ->is_address_reusable is about the reusability of backend's DNS address (and lifetime, both deduced from the address_ttl= parameter) while ->disablereuse is about the reusability of the connections/sockets only. Except we probably still want to disable address reuse when disablereuse=on explicitly (for compatibility), but not for the implicit case [4], which is what this patch does. Thoughts? Jean-Frederic, I don't think it addresses your issue because you probably have enablereuse=on already if your ProxyPassMatch used to reuse connections before 2.4.59? Connection reuse for ProxyPassMatch is possible since 2.4.47, but has always depended on enablereuse=on. If you don't use ProxyPassMatch with a $-substitution I don't see why something changed in 2.4.59 though..
Index: modules/proxy/proxy_util.c =================================================================== --- modules/proxy/proxy_util.c (revision 1923126) +++ modules/proxy/proxy_util.c (working copy) @@ -2262,12 +2262,18 @@ PROXY_DECLARE(apr_status_t) ap_proxy_initialize_wo if (!worker->s->retry_set) { worker->s->retry = apr_time_from_sec(PROXY_WORKER_DEFAULT_RETRY); } - /* Consistently set address and connection reusabilty: when reuse - * is disabled by configuration, or when the address is known already - * to not be reusable for this worker (in any case, thus ignore/force - * DisableReuse). + /* worker->s->disablereuse is about disabling backend connection/socket + * reuse for successive requests, while worker->s->is_address_reusable + * is about DNS address reuse (an worker->s->address_ttl of zero also + * means not reusable). When the DNS address is not reusable neither + * are the connections, so make this consistent here. + * However setting disablereuse=on (or enablereuse=off) has always + * disabled DNS address reuse too, both were kind of the same thing + * before 2.4.59, so we keep this behaviour unless an address_ttl= is + * configured explicitely. */ if (!worker->s->address_ttl || (!worker->s->address_ttl_set + && worker->s->disablereuse_set && worker->s->disablereuse)) { worker->s->is_address_reusable = 0; }