Hi, I'm gathering some information regarding UDP load balancing. I've come accross this in https://www.nginx.com/resources/admin-guide/udp-health-check/ and I'm quite puzzled :
"NGINX can mark the server as unavailable and stop sending UDP datagrams to it for some time if the server replies with an error or times out. The number of consecutive failed connection attempts within a certain time period is set with the max_fails parameter for an upstream server (default value is 1)." What is unclear to me is the "failed connection attempt" term. UDP being a connectionless protocol, it's unclear what is the actual method used by NGINX to decide whether a passive health check is successfull or not. Would the existence of traffic from server to Nginx be a sign of success or are other methods involved ? Thank you SC
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