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The old behavior is to not start MaxScale if any listeners fail to bind. This behavior is convenient when there are conflicts with other applications so it should remain. This change prevents the internal service restarts from functioning which might have already been broken. The "restarting" of services after a failure to bind to an interface is somewhat questionable. Almost no transient errors are expected at startup with the exception of running out of sockets. This should probably be the only case when the internal service restart is done and in other cases it causes more harm than good.
MaxScale by MariaDB Corporation
The MariaDB Corporation MaxScale is an intelligent proxy that allows forwarding of database statements to one or more database servers using complex rules, a semantic understanding of the database statements and the roles of the various servers within the backend cluster of databases.
MaxScale is designed to provide load balancing and high availability functionality transparently to the applications. In addition it provides a highly scalable and flexible architecture, with plugin components to support different protocols and routing decisions.
For a detailed overview of what MaxScale can do, read the MaxScale page on the MariaDB website.
An Google Group exists for MaxScale that can be used to discuss ideas, issues and communicate with the MaxScale community.
We're also on the #maria and #maxscale channels on FreeNode.
Please report all feature requests, improvements and bugs in the MariaDB Jira.
Getting Started
Read the Documentation Overview for a list of all MaxScale documents.
Documentation
The official documentation can be found on the MariaDB Knowledge Base.
A MaxScale Troubleshooting Guide can be found on the MariaDB Knowledgebase. It answers common questions encountered when installing and using MaxScale.
The documentation can also be found in the Documentation directory of the source tree.
Contributing Code
Read the Contributing page on the wiki for more information on how to do pull request and where to do them.