Hi Duncan, You should use a a consistent hash to avoid dispatching your traffic each time a server fails or come back. In your backend declaration: hash-type consistent
Baptiste On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Duncan Mason <[email protected]> wrote: > We have HAProxy successfully performing sticky session routing based on a > value in the request querystring with the following configuration command. > > balance url_param userId > > > > This works great and if application server A fails, then you can see > subsequent requests being routed to a new target server B which is the > desired behaviour. > > However, if application server A comes back online we see the requests for > certain users once again being routed there which causes the users to > experience 2 dropped sessions instead of just 1. > > Is there any way to tell HAProxy to pin requests for active sessions to > server B for some minimum timeout period so that requests only return to > Server A once those user sessions have expired? > > Any help on this much appreciated. > > Duncan Mason > >

