reduce number of changes

Author: neerfri

rootfs/etc/nginx/lua/balancer.lua

@@ -110,14 +110,14 @@ local function is_backend_with_external_name(backend)
 end
 
 local function sync_backend(backend)
+  -- We resolve external names before checking if the endpoints are empty
+  -- because the behavior for resolve_external_names when the name was not
+  -- resolved is to return an empty table so we set the balancer to nil below
+  -- see https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/pull/10989
   if is_backend_with_external_name(backend) then
     backend = resolve_external_names(backend)
   end
 
-  -- We check if the endpoints are empty after resolving the external names
-  -- because the behavior for resolve_external_names when the name was not
-  -- resolved is to return an empty table so we set the balancer to nil below
-  -- see https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/pull/10989
   if not backend.endpoints or #backend.endpoints == 0 then
     balancers[backend.name] = nil
     return