nginx 1.3.9 *) Feature: support for chunked transfer encoding while reading client request body. *) Feature: the $request_time and $msec variables can now be used not only in the "log_format" directive. *) Bugfix: cache manager and cache loader processes might not be able to start if more than 512 listen sockets were used. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_dav_module.

--- a/src/http/ngx_http_upstream_round_robin.c
+++ b/src/http/ngx_http_upstream_round_robin.c
@@ -430,6 +430,10 @@ ngx_http_upstream_get_round_robin_peer(n
     if (rrp->peers->single) {
         peer = &rrp->peers->peer[0];
 
+        if (peer->down) {
+            goto failed;
+        }
+
     } else {
 
         /* there are several peers */