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Isn't network failover best achieved by your connect connecting to a vip
 i.e. a "eral" network managed failover  and stunn just connects to the
currently active one via the VIP?

Stu




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From "Daphne Shaw" <[email protected]>
To [email protected]
Date 06/09/2023 15:58:55
Subject [stunnel-users] Failover configuration using a proxy

Hello!

I have a configuration question around failover with stunnel as a https client (that is, 
"client=yes"). The end goal here is a "Try to connect to host A, if that fails, 
connect to host B, etc." type of setup. I can do that with multiple connect= options, one per 
host, and it works as expected:

        connect=x.x.x.x
        connect=y.y.y.y
        connect=z.z.z.z

The question I have is around doing the same thing with a proxy. In a proxy 
configuration, connect= specifies the proxy (https in my case, so 
"protocol=connect"), and protocolHost= specifies the host that I want to 
connect to via that proxy. Unfortunately, it seems that protocolHost only allows a single 
host and cannot be used multiple times, so I can't specify the hosts to failover to.

        connect=my.proxy.ip
        protocol=connect
        protocolhost=x.x.x.x
        protocolhost=y.y.y.y
        protocolhost=z.z.z.z

That always attempts to connect to z.z.z.z (the last specified host) via the 
proxy.

I am using stunnel 4.56 (stock stunnel from Centos 7), but happy to upgrade if 
a newer version makes this possible (the manual suggests the latest version 
works the same way).

Any suggestions? I'm sure I could accomplish this by wrapping stunnel in a 
script that generates a new config file for each failover, but well, I'm hoping 
to not have to do that.

Thanks,

Daphne

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