Several backend balancing methods seem to be broken with the 1.8 releases. All traffic is directed to one backend even when multiple are listed. This happens on both 1.8 and 1.8.1. Changing the balance to roundrobin distributes requests as expected.
Balancing modes affected: source, URL, static-rr haproxy -vv HA-Proxy version 1.8.1 2017/12/03 Copyright 2000-2017 Willy Tarreau <[email protected]> Build options : TARGET = linux2628 CPU = x86_64 CC = gcc CFLAGS = -g -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdeclaration-after-statement -fwrapv -Wno-unused-label OPTIONS = USE_ZLIB=1 USE_OPENSSL=1 USE_LUA=1 USE_SYSTEMD=1 USE_PCRE=1 Default settings : maxconn = 2000, bufsize = 16384, maxrewrite = 1024, maxpollevents = 200 Built with OpenSSL version : OpenSSL 1.0.2k-fips 26 Jan 2017 Running on OpenSSL version : OpenSSL 1.0.2k-fips 26 Jan 2017 OpenSSL library supports TLS extensions : yes OpenSSL library supports SNI : yes OpenSSL library supports : SSLv3 TLSv1.0 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2 Built with Lua version : Lua 5.3.4 Built with transparent proxy support using: IP_TRANSPARENT IPV6_TRANSPARENT IP_FREEBIND Encrypted password support via crypt(3): yes Built with multi-threading support. Built with PCRE version : 8.32 2012-11-30 Running on PCRE version : 8.32 2012-11-30 PCRE library supports JIT : no (USE_PCRE_JIT not set) Built with zlib version : 1.2.7 Running on zlib version : 1.2.7 Compression algorithms supported : identity("identity"), deflate("deflate"), raw-deflate("deflate"), gzip("gzip") Built with network namespace support. Available polling systems : epoll : pref=300, test result OK poll : pref=200, test result OK select : pref=150, test result OK Total: 3 (3 usable), will use epoll. Available filters : [SPOE] spoe [COMP] compression [TRACE] trace

