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With this in mind, it does not make sense to skip a match rule because the server (or servers)
named in the rule are down, hot spared, or quiesced -- rather, since the server in the rule is
presumably critical to satisfying the request, it makes sense to route the request to the (for
example) down server, and have the client receive an appropriate error -- so that the request can
be retried.
If we instead were to skip a match rule because, for example, the server selected by the match
rule is down, the request would be evaluated by the next match rule -- or the default match rule.
The request, therefore, could potentially be sent to a server in the cluster that does not have the
requested content. This means that the client would receive a “not found” error, instead of an
error indicating that the appropriate server is not currently available.
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