Hello All
I am a new user to pen , but its seems to do almost everything i need
straight away , i have a few questions about its behaviour tho.
My setup is :
lxncontrol001 = 192.168.0.20 ( pen , dns ) pen is started with : pen
192.168.0.20:80 192.168.0.101:80 192.168.0.101:80
lxnode001 = 192.168.0.101 ( apache )
lxnode002 = 192.168.0.102 ( apache )
win2k001 = 192.168.0.12 ( windows , internet explorer , using dns from
lxcontrol001 , never use cache option with ie)
I achieve fail over just fine if i shutdown apache cleanly , however if
i just switch off one of the lxnode machines , the clients webrowser
just waits around.
It does sort its self out after a while, but it takes a long time , pen
seems reluctant to pass the request on to another machine , i understand
pens desire to send the client to the same server where possible.
Even if i reboot the windows machine and try the page again , it can
still hang around for a while looking for the dead server.
Why is this so, if i stop apache and then reboot i get no hang.
Obviously if a machine is going to fail , i cannot predict wether apache
will be shutdown cleanly.
Also as a side note , pen does not seem to honour its ( default ? ) 5
sec timeout.
Are there any options i can give pen to help here ? , i did try
experimenting with -t and -b options , but with no luck.
Any informations greatfully recived :)
Thanks
Neil
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