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NiFi InvokeHTTP -Is there DNS caching or something that would interfere with GSLB failover?

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Version: NiFi 1.11.x

 

Noticed a behavior where for this version of NiFi, when the remote url is a GSLB, it doesn't recognize when a host is removed from a GSLB until the processor is stopped. Any idea why? Any ideas for a solution?

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Kind of an update: A jank workaround was to force the Connection to close, but it's not the best solution. Looking to see why the client is ignoring the DNS TTL.

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@Eric_B ,

 

This is a behaviour inherited from Java. Java caches DNS resolved names internally.

You can adjust the cache TTL value by specifying the corresponding Java property during NiFi startup.

 

Please see a description of the property here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-java/v1/developer-guide/java-dg-jvm-ttl.html

 

Cheers,

André

 

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Hi @araujo ! That seems to be cause, but I'm a bit confused on how I would set it up. I attempted to both set it in the bootstrap as well as via the jre, but still nothing seems to be working. 

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Can you share your settings?

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I've attempt to set the above in the java.security file and in the bootstrap I set the runtime variables as
java.arg.20=-Djava.security.networkaddress.cache.ttl=60
java.arg.21=-Dsun.net.inetaddr.ttl=60