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

[Chris Withers]

Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
> The usecase is pretty simple:  you have a loadbalancer and remove  one 
> backend Zope. The LB detects the removal and stops forwarding request.
> When the client comes back (means Zope opens the ports early) the LB
> will start forwarding to the client although it might take a while until 
> the Zope instance is really up and ready to serve request. So by opening
> the ports late we are able to reduce the latency and avoid pending
> requests.

Er yes, I know why this is a very good thing. I was commenting that I 
can't see why anyone would want anything else ;-)

Chris

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