This might seem daft, but did you think of using the app_server idea
(discussed way back on the list - check the archive)
Basically in app_globals you include a file named app_server.cfm which is
global for all applications and has server specific information - manually
entered once - such as the server IP.
Once a user is logged in you can redirect them to this servers physical
address using an absolute URL, from then on that user session will stay on
that IP address when you use relative URL's.
HTH,
Noam
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From: Riccomi, Laura [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 22 February 2001 17:00
To: Fusebox
Subject: RE: OT: finding IP of current server
Yep, it's looking like trying to work around the load balancing is
not a
good solution. Reconfiguring is not an option because the servers
are
hosting much much more than just this one app. I think the best way
will be
to complete all of the processing in one request.
Thanks for all your suggestions.
Laura Riccomi
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Peters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 4:45 PM
To: Fusebox
Subject: Re: OT: finding IP of current server
As I'm sure you're probably discovering, server targeting is
normally the
job
of the load balancer as opposed to the application. Though
ClusterCats is
not
an option for you, is it possible to configure your current
balancing
solution
to use session-based balancing rather than request-based? This
would leave
the
session on whichever server the balancer selects at the beginning of
the
session. It's not as efficient as request-based balancing, and
you'll have
to
be very wary of session timeouts, but if that's what you need...
- Jeff
On 19 Feb 2001, at 15:50, Riccomi, Laura wrote:
> I've noticed high brain-power activity on this list, so I'm trying
this
> question on you guys:
>
> I'm writing a set of scripts that will need to ensure that the
user
remains
> on the same physical server throughout a process. To do this I
would like
to
> find the IP of the server that the user is currently on. Is there
an
> environment variable or similar that will tell me this? I already
tried
> SERVER_ADDR, but our servers don't support this.
>
> Load balancing was set up in our environment over a year ago, so
installing
> ClusterCats is not an option. I need some way to do this in the
code.
>
> Thanks,
> Laura Riccomi
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