In this case, the hosts to be connected to have no relationship - not on the 
same network, not even hosted by the same companies. I don't have control of 
the server side here, just the client.

D.

On Sep 6, 2023, at 1:06 PM, Stewart Anderson via stunnel-users 
<[email protected]> wrote:
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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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