Is there a way to implement failover if a primary server does not accept the request? about redbird HOT 8 OPEN

I guess that if this was implemented: https://github.com/OptimalBits/redbird/blob/master/lib/proxy.js#L229 it would just be a matter of using the load-balancer in redbird (i.e. registering the same route pointing to two different ip addresses)

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Yeah, I saw the load balancing, I guess a switch could be put in to select either failover, load balancing, or both. I am not great with programming, but do have some experience and am trying to learn and get better, which is why if there was not a way to do it that was already built in, I was going to try and make one. : )

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its mostly that currently the load balancer does not handle well targets that do not respond, so this is actually I need to implement. Maybe next week...

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How would I go about dynamically register and then unregister a proxy? Such as, register a proxy to an IP, if it does not respond to either ping or some other sort of connection attempt, then unregister that proxy for now, and then register a new one.
Would I be able to do something similar to the below if I implement some sort of way to check (just as a small example)?
if (host1Connection == true){ proxy.register("example.com", "http://1.1.1.1") } else { proxy.register("example.com", "http://1.1.1.2" ) }

Or do you have to somehow "unregister" the first proxy?

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you need to unregister: https://github.com/OptimalBits/redbird#unregister
You can check how the etcd backend is implemented for inspiration...

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Any updates on the failover support?

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Hi there! Any update on the failover. I think it's a critical functionality in load balancing and it would be very cool if the module had it.

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