By Marco Colli
I mean, suppose that the healthy check is performed every 10 seconds and the server is removed from the list after 3 consecutive failures. The whole process takes 30 seconds. What happens in that 30 seconds if I turn off a server or when the server produces failures? When a connection from the load balancer to the server fails, does the load balancer retry automatically with a different server? Or does it return an error to the client?
I think that this question actually refers to two distinct scenarios:
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