[tele_ski]

We interestingly ran into issues with actix and the AWS lb. The lb takes some liberty with how it handled connections and actix seems to be "to the spec" so we were seeing a lot of dropped connections. Placing nginx between the two resolved the issue but it's fairly disappointing that we need that layer when it should be unnecessary overhead. I'd love to give axum a try if we could find time and see if it behaves better.

[infogulch]

> lb takes some liberty with how it handled connections

Interesting, I'm curious about the details here. Does the lb reuse connections for multiple requests or something?

[scottlamb]

> Interesting, I'm curious about the details here. Does the lb reuse connections for multiple requests or something?

I'm curious too. There must be more to it than that because LBs reusing backhaul connections is standard practice. It's not only an optimization but in many cases you'll quickly hit ephemeral port exhaustion if you don't. TCP connections are distinguished by (src_ip, src_port, dst_ip, dst_port) tuple. For this leg you're probably only varying the src_port portion, and all of the valid options are cooling in time_wait state.