On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Graham Leggett <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul Querna wrote: > >> 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. > > On my list of things to do is a module that is able to locate backend > servers using zeroconf/bonjour, and this sounds similar (although not the > same, obviously). >
That is much closer to what mod_heartbeat does -- It uses multicast like zeroconf/bonjour, but the problem is that in most cloud enviroments, you don't have the ability to use multicast between nodes, at least right now.
