Memcached and failover (Problems: SERVER IS MARKED AS DEAD).

[Kevin P. Foote]

Hans, Quick answer is no there is not. 

Please see the post by Andre in the thread linked below[1]. According to 
him its the underlying libmemcachd which is at fault. Thus it does not 
flow back up to shibd.

I really don't think much has changed in either the memcached lib nor the
shib extension since this post that would change the result.


[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.shibboleth.user/13598/match=memcached


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thanks
  kevin.foote

On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, Hans Christian Alsos wrote:

-> Hi.
-> My question is regarding failover and memcached.
-> 
-> I have deployed Shibboleth with the memcached extension to two servers using
-> LVS, and if I stop memcached on one of the servers, I get an error
-> message saying that the "SERVER IS MARKED DEAD". Which is fine, but it seems
-> that shibd continues to try and use that memcached instance even after it has
-> been marked as dead.
-> 
-> Is there any way to configure shibd to stop using memcached servers that have
-> been marked dead ?
-> Regards.
-> Hans Christian Alsos
->