Re: Just wondering if BIND can do GLB -Global Load Balancing Stuff?

2012-12-17 Thread Feng He
I once maintained two F5-BIGIP-GTM boxes a coupe of years ago, at that time they called as F5 3DNS. GTM does have a BIND installed, but that means nothing. Its GSLB DNS module is not BIND, but a customized module in Linux kernel. Among with this module there are some scheduler methods to balance

Just wondering if BIND can do GLB -Global Load Balancing Stuff?

2012-12-12 Thread Manish Rane
Hi Folks, Can BIND work as a Global Load Balancer? Or I am keen to know about constructing GTM kindaa stuff which can monitor the health of devices and route away traffic from failed ones by putting lower TTL value? I believe F5 3DNS does the same thing?

Re: Just wondering if BIND can do GLB -Global Load Balancing Stuff?

2012-12-12 Thread cindyjohnson1
BIND does a sort of round robin to load balance among the IPs for a specific host; however, it does not monitor any health or routes and doesn't have the same capabilities as a GTM to choose what IP to answer for a name.I've worked with F5 GTM to monitor and route traffic based on health, status,

Re: Just wondering if BIND can do GLB -Global Load Balancing Stuff?

2012-12-12 Thread Manish Rane
I understand BIND by default can not work like GLB but wondering if there are any patches available or any other Open source software community is aware of who can perform such thing. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:45 PM, cindyjohns...@verizon.net wrote: BIND does a sort of round robin to load

Re: Just wondering if BIND can do GLB -Global Load Balancing Stuff?

2012-12-12 Thread Warren Kumari
On Dec 12, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Manish Rane manish...@gmail.com wrote: I understand BIND by default can not work like GLB but wondering if there are any patches available or any other Open source software community is aware of who can perform such thing. This isn't really something that

RE: Just wondering if BIND can do GLB -Global Load Balancing Stuff?

2012-12-12 Thread Mike Mitchell
=sas@lists.isc.org [bind-users-bounces+mike.mitchell=sas@lists.isc.org] on behalf of Manish Rane [manish...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 10:28 AM To: cindyjohns...@verizon.net; bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Just wondering if BIND can do GLB -Global Load Balancing