I would think clustering would be the key here.
Some OS's support IP connectivity management. DNS remains static, and the
machines negotiate for who is going to answer on a give port for a given
connection request. If I remember correctly there is stuff built right
into RedHat Linux 6.2 and higher for this stuff.
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Ben Hyatt wrote:
> > How do you distribute the load among the front end servers? Do you need
> > a special DNS setup for this? Or do you just hand out different server
> > names to different sets of users?
>
> All recent versions of bind support round-robin.
> Of course, in a large environment having an F5(BigIP) is always nice ;)
>
> -Ben
>
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