[Zope-dev] Timing the opening of network ports

[Jens Vagelpohl]

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On 28 Aug 2006, at 19:19, Andreas Jung wrote:

> Some time ago the following patch was proposed to control the timing
> for opening the socket ports upon startup:
>
> <http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2005-November/025709.html>
>
> I propose to adapt the patch for Zope 2.11 since it is pretty  
> useful especially when you deal with loadbalancers and have Zope  
> instances that
> take a lot time for starting up (e.g. Plone :-)). Any objections?

+1

If you have load balancers that only look for open ports (or a single  
instance with no load balancers even) this will improve the user  
experience for people who hit the site upon startup. IMHO it's more  
helpful to get a "connection refused" reply in a browser than a  
browser that sits and sits and sites...

jens



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