[Zope-dev] Re: Timing the opening of network ports

[Tres Seaver]

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Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Jens Vagelpohl wrote at 2006-8-28 20:14 +0200:
>> 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...
> 
> Can we make this configurable?
> 
> Earlier Zope versions had bound the ports rather late.
> When later Zope versions bound the ports early, I was quite happy.
> 
> Unlike you, I prefer when the browser waits until Zope
> has come up over me  having to reload manually until it
> finally is ready...

The branch Andreas just merged leaves the "fast-bind" option on by default.


Tres.
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