Re: [users@httpd] DNS lookup failure for: hostname

2015-04-23 Thread Yasser
Hi Yann, Yes, I tried that and didnt see any difference in the behaviour Thanks, Yasser On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Yann Ylavic ylavic@gmail.com wrote: Hi Yasser, Coudn't it be that your DNS server/network is not following the load? Can you still reproduce the failures with

Re: [users@httpd] DNS lookup failure for: hostname

2015-04-23 Thread Yann Ylavic
Hi Yasser, Coudn't it be that your DNS server/network is not following the load? Can you still reproduce the failures with jbosshost in your /etc/hosts? Regards, Yann. On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Yasser yarafa...@gmail.com wrote: The test ran for two hours on 4/21/2015 between 8pm and

Re: [users@httpd] DNS lookup failure for: hostname

2015-04-23 Thread Yasser
I was digging through the proxy_util.c code and found the following: if (err != APR_SUCCESS) { return ap_proxyerror(r, HTTP_BAD_GATEWAY, apr_pstrcat(p, DNS lookup failure for: , conn-hostname, NULL)); } Variable err

Re: [users@httpd] DNS lookup failure for: hostname

2015-04-22 Thread Yasser
Yes. The Apache servers may sound redundant with the current setup, but in the future it will be used for other purposes like proxying to different virtual ips, php hosting etc. I cannot change the enterprise suite at this point in time. So are you running through the F5, load balancing to the

Re: [users@httpd] DNS lookup failure for: hostname

2015-04-22 Thread Robert Webb
That is exactly what I was thinking. But on to your real problem What do the apache server's resources look like when this starts happening? Things like number of connections, tcp port utilization, cpu, I/O, etc... Makes me wonder if there isn't something being taxed and causing the

Re: [users@httpd] DNS lookup failure for: hostname

2015-04-22 Thread Robert Webb
So are you running through the F5, load balancing to the two Apache proxies, then load balancing with the apache proxies to your 10 back end JBOSS servers? On Wed, 22 Apr 2015 16:21:29 -0400 Yasser yarafa...@gmail.com wrote: I am in the midst of performance testing a web application and I

[users@httpd] DNS lookup failure for: hostname

2015-04-22 Thread Yasser
I am in the midst of performance testing a web application and I get these errors in Apache logs [Sat Apr 18 03:01:01 2015] [error] [client xx.xx.xxx.253] proxy: DNS lookup failure for: jboss-host-name returned by /some/url, referer: http://f5hostname/context/URI It occurs only at high load