proxy groups - load-balance and a failover

[Alan DeKok]

Alan Buxey wrote:
> not sure if i'm being silly, not had enough coffee or it cant be done.

  Hmm...

> basically, in a quick summary, want to have a proxy.conf which, for a realm
> will use a bunch of servers in load balance mode...and if those fail, then use another
> group of servers in a fail-over mode

  Can't be done.  There *is* a "fallback" server if all of the other
home_servers in a pool are dead.  But it's only one server.

  If you really get wonky, set the fallback server to a unique port on
localhost, and then configure that port to forward all requests to a
group of servers in fail-over mode.

  Ugly, but it will work.

  Alan DeKok.