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Casey_Lucas_167
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Mar 26, 2014
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How long should an old version of an iRule hang around?

I'm doing some iRule development/testing (11.3) and noticed that my log statements (via log local0. "msg..." ) were continuing to be executed even after I had changed or removed them (by updating ...
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  • safeinst_110941's avatar
    safeinst_110941
    Mar 26, 2014

    Ah, I apologize I had been assuming your traffic was HTTP traffic which is short lived. Changes like this are applied to all new connections. It sounds like as you discovered you can either stop the application or clear the current connection table to ensure the change applies to all connections.

     

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safeinst_110941
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Mar 26, 2014

Look directly on the box and check if the iRule is still there. You shouldn't be able to delete an iRule that is currently applied to a Virtual Server, so something is not computing.

 

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    Casey_Lucas_167
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    Mar 26, 2014
    I removed it from all virtual servers and then deleted it...yet still saw log messages. Only when I stopped the applications that had outstanding (client side) connections (which were making periodic requests) did the log messages stop.