unresolvable host names as errors

2012-04-27 Thread Andres Thomas Stivalet
Currently, if haproxy tries to start up and a webserver is down (and it's defined as a hostname in the config file) haproxy refuses to start. Looking at the previous change logs and announcements it seems this is by design. Why is this done and is there a way to circumvent this? Cheers

Re: unresolvable host names as errors

2012-04-27 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On 27 April 2012 21:37, Andres Thomas Stivalet atstiva...@gmail.com wrote: Currently, if haproxy tries to start up and a webserver is down (and it's defined as a hostname in the config file) haproxy refuses to start. Do you really mean down, or unresolvable as per your subject line? --

Re: unresolvable host names as errors

2012-04-27 Thread Baptiste
Hi, The only moment HAProxy tries to resolve the IP of a hostname found in the conf is at startup. So if it can't find a way to reach the server at this moment, then HAProxy refuses to startup because it knows he will never be able to reach it. Note, there may be some improvement on this point