Actually, it is fairly clear that the original poster is already using round-robin.
Tom On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, p.ramesh wrote: > That's because you have the default load-balacing predictor as > least-connection ( you wont see in the config, because this is default). > > dns connections are usually short-lived, connections get closed pretty fast. > First connections goes to DNS2. by the time second connections comes, there > are no existing connections on any of the 2 servers, so Foundry decided to > forward the request to DNS2 because of least-connection predictor. least > connections looks at currently how many total number of connections are > handled by any server > > Now, configure "server predictor round-robin", you are at peace and see both > servers taking equal number of connections. round-robin is dumb, first > connection go to DNS1, next time go to DNS2, third request take it to DNS1, > and fourth one goes to DNS2. > > Foundry is coming out with powerful ServerIron 4G(read 4 Gig ports) with SSL > support, better upgrade to that, its pretty cheap. > > -Ramesh > > Hope > Tom Samplonius <tom at uniserve.com> wrote: > > DNS2 might be too slow to respond, or lost a few hundred requests. > > From reading the docs, the SI has special handling for DNS requests. It > removes the connection immediately after the response is processed. So if > there > is no response, the connection will stay around until it is aged. So if DNS2 > just discarded a bunch of requests, they would sit around as connections. > > > Tom > > > On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Drew Weaver wrote: > >> Howdy list, been using foundry load balancers for quite some time. >> I'm having a hard time understanding one issue. >> pertinent config: >> >> server real DNS1 10.1.0.2 >> port dns >> ! >> server real DNS2 10.1.0.3 >> port dns >> >> server virtual DNS 192.168.0.89 >> predictor round-robin >> port dns >> bind dns DNS1 dns DNS2 dns >> >> pretty straightforward right? >> >> OK, well I was looking at the real server stats and I noticed that DNS1 >> had 37 active connections whilst DNS2 had 781 active connections all of >> the servers/pcs/devices are set to use 192.168.0.89 as their resolver, >> so why is there such a hugely unproportinate number of connections >> hitting DNS2? >> >> Thanks! >> >> -Drew >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundry-nsp mailing list >> foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net >> http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp >> > _______________________________________________ > foundry-nsp mailing list > foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net > http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp > > > > --------------------------------- > Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com
