The host came back, nginx didn't

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Some paths on the site don’t belong to this app. They go to another host – a second backend behind the same domain – and nginx forwards them with a proxy_pass, POST and headers and all. It works, and for months I don’t think about it.

Then the other host goes down for a few minutes. The requests to it fail while it’s down – there’s nothing to forward to. That part I expect.

Dns on vnykmshr

The host came back, nginx didn't