Hi everyone, I'm quite new with Haproxy and I have a weird behavior with external check..
here is my config file : global log /dev/log local0 log /dev/log local1 notice chroot /var/lib/haproxy stats socket /run/haproxy/admin.sock mode 660 level admin stats timeout 30s user haproxy group haproxy daemon # Default SSL material locations ca-base /etc/ssl/certs crt-base /etc/ssl/private # Default ciphers to use on SSL-enabled listening sockets. # For more information, see ciphers(1SSL). This list is from: # https://hynek.me/articles/hardening-your-web-servers-ssl-ciphers/ ssl-default-bind-ciphers ECDH+AESGCM:DH+AESGCM:ECDH+AES256:DH+AES256:ECDH+AES128:DH+AES:ECDH+3DES:DH+3DES:RSA+AESGCM:RSA+AES:RSA+3DES:!aNULL:!MD5:!DSS ssl-default-bind-options no-sslv3 *external-check* defaults log global mode http option httplog option dontlognull timeout connect 5000 timeout client 50000 timeout server 50000 errorfile 400 /etc/haproxy/errors/400.http errorfile 403 /etc/haproxy/errors/403.http errorfile 408 /etc/haproxy/errors/408.http errorfile 500 /etc/haproxy/errors/500.http errorfile 502 /etc/haproxy/errors/502.http errorfile 503 /etc/haproxy/errors/503.http errorfile 504 /etc/haproxy/errors/504.http backend web-backend balance roundrobin *option external-check external-check path "/usr/bin:/bin:/tmp" external-check command /bin/true server web1 127.0.0.1:80 <http://127.0.0.1:80> check server web2 127.0.0.1:81 <http://127.0.0.1:81> check* frontend http bind *:82 mode http default_backend web-backend And yet I get a 503 and in my logs I got this : ...: Server web-backend/web1 is DOWN, reason: External check error, code: 255, check duration: 5ms. 1 active and 0 backup servers left. 0 sessions active, 0 requeued, 0 remaining in queue. ...: Server web-backend/web1 is DOWN, reason: External check error, code: 255, check duration: 5ms. 1 active and 0 backup servers left. 0 sessions active, 0 requeued, 0 remaining in queue. ...: Server web-backend/web2 is DOWN, reason: External check error, code: 255, check duration: 1ms. 0 active and 0 backup servers left. 0 sessions active, 0 requeued, 0 remaining in queue. ...: Server web-backend/web2 is DOWN, reason: External check error, code: 255, check duration: 1ms. 0 active and 0 backup servers left. 0 sessions active, 0 requeued, 0 remaining in queue. ...: backend web-backend has no server available! ...: backend web-backend has no server available! How could the check */bin/true* fail and return 255 ? I'm running the latest stable version (1.6.5) If someone have an idea of what I'm doing wrong please heelp ! ^^ Bye, Hugo DELVAL