Having a kubernetes service (of type ClusterIP) connected to a set of pods, but none of them are currently ready - what will happen to the request? Will it:
[node1 ~]$ kubectl get svc
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
kubernetes ClusterIP 10.96.0.1 443/TCP 2h
my-nginx ClusterIP 10.100.1.134 80/TCP 9s
$ curl 10.100.1.134
$ kubectl create -f nginx-depl.yaml
$ kubectl get po
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
my-nginx-f9945ffdd-2f77f 1/1 Running 0 1m
my-nginx-f9945ffdd-rk68v 1/1 Running 0 1m
$ curl 10.100.1.134
It will time out.
Kube-proxy pulls out the IP addresses from healthy pods and sets as endpoints of the service (backends). Also, note that all kube-proxy does is to re-write the iptables when you create, delete or modify a service.
So, when you send a request within your network and there is no one to reply, your request will timeout.