RE: Helpers idea

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>
> For the DNS helper I have changed the limit to be only a quque limit,
> not a fatal condition. So instead of crashing it now returns
> "Temporary
> network overload".

That's nice - although I was just looking for a handy example :-]

> > I think a better approach than skipping accept() would be
> stop listening
> > in the event that everything has crashed and burnt.. that
> way there will
> > be no time out, the users machine will know immediately
> they can't get
> > thru and their .pac script can switch proxies (or whatever
> their fall
> > back is - ring the admin etc etc)
>
> True, but configurable. If this is the only proxy and no PAC
> scripts are
> used then you most likely want to continue accept requests to process
> what you can, and error on the requests you know you can't service
> within a reasonable timeframe.

I like that better from a single-proxy perspective... But for failover
environments it will be better to drop the listen() as dancer suggested.
Perhaps a conf option to
-Stop
or
-return error.

Rob
Received on Fri Sep 15 2000 - 01:36:52 MDT