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Sarnoth_81568's avatar
Sarnoth_81568
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18 years ago

LB::reselect problem

Let me give you some background before I get in to the problem.   We have a web application that uses session replication. A node can fail in such a way that it always return 5xx error pages. We ...
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Nicolas_Menant
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18 years ago
Hi,

 

 

Check the notes for LB::reselect there is some problem: Click here

 

 

Version Specific Notes

 

LTM 9.2 When load balancing fails to a selected member, the iRule LB::reselect command repeatedly attempts to connect to the unavailable member, rather than selecting the next available pool member.

 

See AskF5 SOL8188 (CR84102) (deb)

 

LTM 9.3, 9.4, & 9.3.1 When load balancing fails to a selected member, the iRule LB::reselect command repeatedly attempts to connect to the unavailable member, rather than selecting the next available pool member.

 

See AskF5 SOL8188Click here (CR85186) (deb)

 

 

 

Maybe you can try to do a LB::detach to close the connection to the server and do the HTTP::retry