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## Policies
-There are three load-balancing policies available:
+There are four load-balancing policies available:
* `random` (default) - Randomly select a backend
* `least_conn` - Select the backend with the fewest active connections
* `round_robin` - Select the backend in round-robin fashion
+* `first` - Select the first available backend looking by order of declaration from left to right
+
All polices implement randomly spraying packets to backend hosts when *no healthy* hosts are
available. This is to preeempt the case where the healthchecking (as a mechanism) fails.