NServiceBus: How to configure a subscriber when using DB subscription storage

Question

I have a logical publication which is basically a bunch of MT servers, who all access a DB subscription storage. These MTs are typically upgraded by taking 1/2 out of rotation, installing the new MT version, bringing them back online, and then repeating for the other half.

I am confused how a subscriber would subscribes to such a publication. In all of the examples I have seen, a subscriber needs to have a publisher's InputQueue specified in configuration in order for the subscription request to be received. But what InputQueue would I specify in this situation? I don't want subscription to fail if some of my publisher MT's happen to be down. Would I just subscribe manually by adding a record to the DB subscription storage?

Answer 1

Publishers usually publish as a result of processing some command from a client, and as such, you usually use a distributor to scale them out, as well as using the DB subscription storage. Subscribers are another kind of client so you would configure them to point to the distributor as well.