* plugin/forward: on demand healtchecking
Only start doing health checks when we encouner an error (any error).
This uses the new pluing/pkg/up package to abstract away the actual
checking. This reduces the LOC quite a bit; does need more testing, unit
testing and tcpdumping a bit.
* fix tests
* Fix readme
* Use pkg/up for healthchecks
* remove unused channel
* more cleanups
* update readme
* * Again do go generate and go build; still referencing the wrong forward
repo? Anyway fixed.
* Use pkg/up for doing the healtchecks to cut back on unwanted queries
* Change up.Func to return an error instead of a boolean.
* Drop the string target argument as it doesn't make sense.
* Add healthcheck test on failing to get an upstream answer.
TODO(miek): double check Forward and Lookup and how they interact with
HC, and if we correctly call close() on those
* actual test
* Tests here
* more tests
* try getting rid of host
* Get rid of the host indirection
* Finish removing hosts
* moar testing
* import fmt
* field is not used
* docs
* move some stuff
* bring back health_check
* maxfails=0 test
* git and merging, bah
* review
This adds a generic way of start a check function to check a backend.
This package can be used to kick off healthchecks. The package makes
sure only 1 is run at any one time.
It should allow for:
See upstream error -> kick off healthcheck
and not to worry about overwhelming the upstream with a barrage of
queries.
