<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:small;display:inline!important;float:none">I&#39;m looking at the consistent hash exchange for a project, and am wondering what happens when one or more rabbitmq nodes go down or the entire cluster goes down. Assuming we&#39;re using active/active HA, the queues can be recovered. But my concern is that the consistent hashing will be different when the system comes up again. Messages that previously would have hashed to queue A might now hash to queue B. This would be problematic if queue A&#39;s consumer is processing a previous message that now hashes to queue B.</span><div>
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</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:small;display:inline!important;float:none">Is this a valid concern or are failures handled nicely via some other means?</span><div>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:small;display:inline!important;float:none">Josh</span></div>
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