You could also look at lua-resty-upstream-healthcheck (
https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-upstream-healthcheck) as an
alternative. It's not native Nginx per se, but it's integrated with
OpenResty.

On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 3:12 AM, Aleksandar Lazic <al-nginx@none.at> wrote:

> Hi Michael
>
> Am 07-08-2015 20:30, schrieb Michael Power:
>
>> Does Nginx support any sort of zeroconf in its proxying to upstream
>> servers? I would like to make the backend publish themselves via
>> something like zeroconf. Nginx should route traffic to them when they
>> publish themselves as online, and nginx should remove them from this
>> list when they publish themselves as offline.
>>
>> Does that currently exist in nginx?
>>
>
> Yes.
>
> http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_upstream_conf_module.html
>
> Michael Power
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> nginx mailing list
>> nginx@nginx.org
>> http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> nginx mailing list
> nginx@nginx.org
> http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
>
_______________________________________________
nginx mailing list
nginx@nginx.org
http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx