Hi John, On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:23:24AM -0500, John Marrett wrote: > I'm embarassed to report that this is not an HAProxy issue.
Don't feel embarassed. I'm glad that you found the issue. And it's kind to send us an update. > In addition to the changes being made on the load balancing level, we > have also upgraded the backend real servers. It seems there has been a > change in their shutdown procedure, where before they would stop > responding immediately when a shutdown was initiated they now return 503 > errors during the (protracted) shut down process. > > This explains both unusual issues perfectly clearly. > > I'm very sorry for any time wasted looking into this issue. No problem, no time wasted yet ! Have you at least found a solution to your issue ? Regards, Willy