Today I was debugging a problem I had with keepalived not discovering that a real server behind a virtual IP it manages, had died.
The problem was really strange because the check was very, very simple
real_server 192.168.1.65 3306
{
TCP_CHECK
{
connect_port 3306
bindto 192.168.1.65
connect_timeout 2
}
}
This configuration was created after reading keepalived.conf man pages, that talk about these 3 options for the TCP_CHECK, without going in deeper details. So I assumed that bindto IPADDR has to be used to indicate to which IP address we should connect to do the check. But I was wrong, because with this configuration if the real server behind dies, keepalived doesn’t notice anything at all. This is because the “bindto” option, I guess, is used to choose to which local (to the LVS director) IP address bind to check the external IP:port.
So, changing the configuration to looks like this:
real_server 192.168.1.65 3306
{
TCP_CHECK
{
connect_port 3306
connect_timeout 2
}
}
fixed the problem. Keepalived is a great product and works quite well, but it’s documentation is a bit disappointing.
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