Bug 52253

Summary: Timeout doesn't work. mod_proxy_balancer strongly depends on TcpMaxConnectRetransmissions in Windows.
Product: Apache httpd-2 Reporter: Daniel Charczyński <danielcharczynski>
Component: CoreAssignee: Apache HTTPD Bugs Mailing List <bugs>
Status: RESOLVED LATER    
Severity: normal CC: danielcharczynski
Priority: P2 Keywords: MassUpdate
Version: 2.2.21   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   

Description Daniel Charczyński 2011-11-28 08:23:02 UTC
Hi

this problem exists in windows xp. In Linux there is no such problem.

mod_proxy_balancer strongly depends on TcpMaxConnectRetransmissions in Windows during balancing resuest to unavailable backend server.

Because of that fact timeout attribute doesn't work.


steps to redistibute problem.


1. Configure mod_proxy_balancer.
2. Make all back end servers unavailable.
3. Start httpd.
4. Send request to httpd server.

One request to httpd means (TcpMaxConnectRetransmissions +1) requests to unavailable backend server

So one request can take even 1 - 2 minutes depends on windows xp registry configuration.

Do httpd must depend on Windows registry configuration?
Comment 1 William A. Rowe Jr. 2011-11-28 17:26:57 UTC
Apparently not, I would expect that either WSAIoctl or setsockopt would be
the mechanism to alter that behavior.  Neither has such a feature that I
could find.  Feel free to come back with more details.
Comment 2 William A. Rowe Jr. 2018-11-07 21:09:01 UTC
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