Hi there,

First of all : I am very fond of HAProxy :-)

I was trying to do some service discovery with bind9 and HAProxy when I
found an odd behaviour on the /resolvers/ part.

Here are some config samples :
My frontend and backend and resolvers config:

    /resolvers discovery//
    //     nameserver jabba 172.16.0.2:53//
    //     resolve_retries       5//
    //     timeout retry         1s//
    //     hold valid           3s/

    /frontend staging_frontend//
    //    mode http//
    //    bind 127.0.0.1:8013//
    //    default_backend staging_backend//
    //
    //
    //backend staging_backend//
    //    server jabba php-staging.vra:8013 check resolvers discovery/


a sample dig :

    /$ dig @172.16.0.2 php-staging.vra +short//
    //172.16.0.2/


So far, everything seems fine to me. But, when i reload haproxy's config :

    /mars 04 15:55:13 jabba haproxy[25262]: [ALERT] 063/155513 (25262) :
    parsing [/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg:98] : 'server jabba' : invalid
    address: 'php-staging.vra' in ...//
    //mars 04 15:55:13 jabba haproxy[25262]: [ALERT] 063/155513 (25262)
    : Error(s) found in configuration file : /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg//
    //mars 04 15:55:13 jabba haproxy[25262]: [ALERT] 063/155513 (25262)
    : Fatal errors found in configuration./

I first questioned my configuration and checked everything out ... There
was no obvious issue.

I checked my //etc/resolv.conf/ file and saw that my server wasn't using
the same resolver. Its resolver did not had any knowledge whatsoever of
/php-staging.vra/ and it caused my configuration to fail on reload.
My //etc/resolv.conf /was :

    /nameserver 8.8.8.8//
    //nameserver 213.186.33.99//
    ///

and became

    /nameserver 172.16.0.2//
    //search vra//
    //nameserver 8.8.8.8//
    //nameserver 213.186.33.99/


permitting haproxy's reload.

My question is pretty simple : since there is a resolvers section in
haproxy's configuration, is it possible to use it despite the server's
resolv.conf?

Let me know if something's unclear in my explanation :)

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