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Landono
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Oct 04, 2013

LTM Default HTTP Retry Value

Is there a default setting for HTTP retries? We are coming from Nginx loadbalancers, which retried once per server if a request failed (very bad default, I know). I've found documentation for an HTT...
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Oct 04, 2013

So we figured out how to fix this, and it's actually a very simple fix. In the pool's settings, go to the advanced menu, and set the Reselect Tries value to something other than 0. This will reselect a pool member for the request on a passive failure (i.e. connection refused) and retry the request. Our testing show that this works perfectly for us and solves our issue.