+
+ // If automatic failover is enabled, check that the server's link
+ // to its master (if any) is up -- but only if there are other
+ // viable candidates left to consider.
+ if ( $this->automaticFailover && $candidates ) {
+ try {
+ if ( $this->getMasterLinkStatus( $conn ) === 'down' ) {
+ // If the master cannot be reached, fail-over to the next server.
+ // If masters are in data-center A, and slaves in data-center B,
+ // this helps avoid the case were fail-over happens in A but not
+ // to the corresponding server in B (e.g. read/write mismatch).
+ continue;
+ }
+ } catch ( RedisException $e ) {
+ // Server is not accepting commands
+ $this->handleException( $conn, $e );
+ continue;
+ }
+ }
+
+ return array( $server, $conn );