Hello!

How to set up Nginx, so it sent simultaneous requests to different upstream server?

For example:
upstream backend {
     server backend1.example.com;
     server backend2.example.com;
     server backend3.example.com down;
     server backend4.example.com;
     server backend5.example.com;
     server backend6.example.com;
}

And we need to Nginx when requested in 3 parallel query sent to the backend: backend1.example.com, backend2.example.com, backend4.example.com.
Then, if backend2.example.com returned an error, the request was forwarded to backend5.example.com.

If one of the three queries successfully completed, the client receives the quickest response.

The goal - do not waste time repeating the request to the next server from upstream.

You might be able to code this with Lua, but this should work as well:

........
server backend1.example.com; weight=1 fail_timeout=5;
server backend2.example.com; weight=1 fail_timeout=5;
least_conn;

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Thank you!
Which configuration should be written on all the upstream servers?