On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Graham Leggett <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul Querna wrote: > >> The (vaporware) solution: mod_cloudbeat automatically finds all of your >> nodes, >> both front end load balancers and backend application servers. All load >> balancing is completely configurationless if using mod_serf -- you just >> turn on a new application server instance, and mod_cloudbeat picks it up. > > You're describing mod_backhand, as I recall.
no, this is just a utility module, which tells you where other members are. second, mod_backhand has never been ported to 2.x, and it does allow you to autoconfigure on cloud-enviroments, which mostly do not have private VLANs for multicast. I'm trying to keep it as a simple module that does a small number of utility tasks well, and then it provides this information for other people and modules to use -- mod_serf or mod_proxy can consume that data to do proxying/load balancing or whatever.
