Hello!

On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 10:29:31AM -0400, CJ Ess wrote:

> In my current setup I have nginx behind a load balancing router (OSPF)
> where each connection to the same address has about 16% chance of hitting
> the same server as the last time.
>
> In a setup like that, does SSL session caching make any difference? I was
> thinking it through this morning and I'm betting that the browser would
> toss the old session ID unless it happened to be routed to the same
> backend, because in the other cases the backend servers would respond they
> don't know the session. Is that correct?

If a server doesn't know the session, it will simply create a new
one. There is no performance difference between "no session" and
"an unknown session" cases. That is, session cache is still
beneficial in such a setup - but has relatively small chance to
help.

In such a setup, it should also be beneficial to configure shared
session ticket keys, see http://nginx.org/r/ssl_session_ticket_key.

--
Maxim Dounin
http://nginx.org/

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