SIGHUP?

[Matthew Pitts]

On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 17:18 -0400, Todd Lipcon wrote:
> Another trick you can do is use iptables to redirect incoming traffic
> to a 
> new perlbal. When you need to do a seamless restart, start up a
> second 
> perlbal on a new port and redirect from port 80 to that port.
> Existing 
> connections will be maintained, but new ones will head to the new 
> perlbal/configuration. Watch the stats on the first perlbal until 
> all the connections die out, at which point you can either kill it or
> do 
> the switch again in reverse. 

This is a neat trick. Unfortunately, it would mean a bit of work for our
setup because I have a VHOST selector on port 80 that doles out
connections to reverse proxies running on other ports, which then talk
to the real backend servers. We'd bascially have to maintain 2 configs
with different ports for each service for doing the iptables trick on
port 80. Unless of course, I'm missing something.

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Matthew W. Pitts
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