right on Paul, exactly what I said about DNS based load balancing...
good for the geographic front end for when you have multiple sites...
after that point time to use load based balancing with stateful
analysis...
-paris
[finding the future in the past, passing the future in the present]
[connecting people, places and things]
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 15:52:23 -0700
Subject: RE: Radiant Communications
> Saw the following interesting posting a week or so ago. Poor
> man's/person's load sharing between to co-located servers, and
> automatic
> fall over for *most* situations, including the one that generated
> this
> thread. Bind 4.9.7 has been solid for years. 4.9.8 is out. It
> achieves
> the client's typical (impossible) project objective: Good, fast, and
> cheap ;-}
>
> best, paul
>
> ================================================================
> B I N D N T S U P P O R T L I S T
> ================================================================
> this works with bind 4.9.x , but i don't know how recomended it is,
> use at
> your own risk
> 1) on your DNS server (i assume they are different than your web
> servers)
> delegate the name of the web servers to the web servers itself,
> creating a
> child domain
> in the db file for mywebsite.com :
> www.mywebsite.com. IN NS www.mywebserver1.com.
> www.mywebsite.com. IN NS www.mywebserver2.com.
>
> 2) on your web server, setup bind so the the A record points to
> itself with
> a TTL of 0 (zero)
> in the db file for www.mywebsite.com on the first server :
> www.mywebsite.com. IN A www.mywebserver1.com.
> in the db file for www.mywebsite.com on the second server :
> www.mywebsite.com. IN A www.mywebserver2.com.
>
> each webserver will run bind and point to itself for the A record, so
> when
> the box is down, the copy of bind that points on this box will also
> be down
> and this box will not resolve anymore
>
> drawback :
> the TTL is near or at 0
> the files for the child domain on the webservers are different on
> each
> machine
>
> advantage :
> it works on bind :-)
>
>
>
> At 06:33 PM 6/4/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >Perhaps a good load balancing appliance that sits outside the
> >datcenter.. or better two of them with geographic distribution and
> at
> >minimum one of those sites being at your location is a nice hybrid
> >play...
>
>
>
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