[RADIATOR] Infinite retries in AuthByLOADBALANCE

[Heikki Vatiainen]

On 20.11.2020 15.53, Frank Danielson wrote:

> Thanks for pointing out the change that allows the use MaxTargetHosts. We’ll update to 4.25 and use that for now.

The patch packages for 4.25 now have an udpated that fixes the problem 
with infinite retires. Similar to HASHBALANCE, the retry logic is 
handled by chooseHost() within the balance algorithm. In short: it keeps 
track of hosts it has already tried instead of just keeping a count of them.

These changes do not affect MaxTargetHosts. It's still available for 
configurations where the count of possible next hop hosts exceeds the 
reasonable number, limit being typically the time taken, of forwarding 
attempts.

Thanks again for reporting this!
Heikki

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