> > Thanks Dave. > > Yea - i'm already using haproxy and it however has problem number 1 from > my two questions. I dont have static IPs so can't rely on what might be > preferable to use just IPs for a backend.
Another one to looks at may be crossroads/XR http://crossroads.e-tunity.com/index.xr I don't know if it could do what you want. Simon > > Its a headache at the moment, but nevermind. Just a case of finding the > tool for the job as it were. > Thanks, > Mark > > > >> Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 14:21:21 -0400 >> To: [email protected] >> From: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Pound Mailing List] Pound DNS and TCP Proxy / Load >> Balancing >> >> On 8/6/2011 2:06 PM, Mark wrote: >> > Hi All, >> > >> > This looks like an interesting product - one I came across a long time >> > ago but have not had the need to use until perhaps now. With that i've >> > got 2 simple and short questions. >> > >> > 1. Can pound include backend servers where the backends are are called >> > by hostname DNS and then the TTL of the DNS is adhered to thus once >> > reached pound will resolve the DNS to the backend hostname again so >> that >> > when the IP changes for the backend pound will pick-up on this without >> > me needing to restart pound? >> >> I think there was a patch floating around for this, but I don't believe >> it's been merged into the main distribution. I may never be - I'm not >> sure exactly where that discussion ended. >> >> > 2. I see lots about http and https etc, but i'm looking at pound more >> > for TCP load balancing, I don't need any special gadgets and abilities >> > just a simple TCP balancing of SSL and http. IE i don't want pound to >> > terminate the SSL and look at the request, but I do want it to be able >> > to load balance SSL and http and pick-up on failure of backends if all >> > that is possible with pound? >> >> Pound is probably not what you want, since pound's modus operandi is to >> parse incoming HTTP headers and do stuff based on that. You'll probably >> find HAProxy more to your liking if you want TCP load balancing with the >> option of getting into HTTP specific stuff. Or relayd, if you happen to >> be an Openbsd user. >> >> Regards, >> -- >> Dave Steinberg >> http://www.geekisp.com/ >> http://www.steinbergcomputing.com/ >> http://www.redterror.net/ >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe send an email with subject unsubscribe to [email protected]. >> Please contact [email protected] for questions. > -- To unsubscribe send an email with subject unsubscribe to [email protected]. Please contact [email protected] for questions.
