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Linux bind IP that doesn’t exist with net.ipv4.ip_nonlocal_bind

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Feb 25, 2020

If you are configuring a high available load-balancer using Nginx/HAProxy, you need to set up non-local addresses option for IP failover to work. This page explains how to allow Linux processes to bind to an IP address that doesn’t exist yet.

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