# Nginx node helth check

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-node-helth-check/243549>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [December 3, 2015, 7:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-node-helth-check/243549 "2015-12-03T07:05:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rafa\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/958977/32.png) [@Rafa\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Rafa_F)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 7:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-node-helth-check/243549/1 "2015-12-03T07:05:24Z")

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Hi !  
We currently use NginX as a L4 switch.  
We have 1 single Upstream VIP which has 2 real nodes of Apache web  
server.  
If all nodes under the VIP works fine, we always get normal response  
from  
the NginX whenever we try ping test from out of IDC.  
My question is that, if all nodes under the VIP went down, does ping  
test to  
the VIP returns failure ?

Thanks.

Posted at Nginx Forum:

> **[Nginx node helth check](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,263225,263225#msg-263225)**
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> Hi ! We currently use NginX as a L4 switch. We have 1 single Upstream VIP which has 2 real nodes of Apache web server. If all nodes under the VIP works fine, we always get normal response from the NginX whenever we try ping test from out of IDC. My...