Hi,

When I bring down all the backends, it takes aprox 6-10 minutes before the
site works again.
Could it be that alive is dependent of the TimeOut value?

RootJail "/var/pound"
User "nobody"
Group "nobody"
LogFacility local2
LogLevel 1
Alive 15
Control "/var/pound/dev/poundctl"

ListenHTTP
       Address 1.2.3.4
       Err500  "/usr/local/etc/500.html"
       Err503  "/usr/local/etc/503.html"
       Port 80
       Client 120
       RewriteLocation 2
       Service
               BackEnd
                       Address 10.20.30.40
                       Port 80
                       Timeout 180
               End
               BackEnd
                       Address 10.20.30.41
                       Port 80
                       Timeout 180
               End
               Session
                       Type COOKIE
                       TTL 1800
                       ID "JSESSIONID"
               End
       End
End
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