Re: load balance of DNS

2012-01-16 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Warren Kumari wri tes: > > On Jan 16, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Todd Snyder wrote: > > >>> do you propose he specify the ratios with BIND? > >>> = > > >>> One (icky) solution is to hand out more addresses for one server than = > > >>> the other=8A > >>> = > > >>> www.example.com IN A

Re: load balance of DNS

2012-01-16 Thread Warren Kumari
On Jan 16, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Todd Snyder wrote: >>> do you propose he specify the ratios with BIND? >>> >>> One (icky) solution is to hand out more addresses for one server than >>> the otherŠ >>> >>> www.example.com IN A 192.168.1.1 >>> www.example.com IN A 192.168.1.2 >>> www.example.c

RE: load balance of DNS

2012-01-16 Thread Todd Snyder
>> do you propose he specify the ratios with BIND? >> >> One (icky) solution is to hand out more addresses for one server than >> the otherŠ >> >> www.example.com IN A 192.168.1.1 >> www.example.com IN A 192.168.1.2 >> www.example.com IN A 192.168.1.3 >> www.example.com IN A 192.168.2

Re: load balance of DNS

2012-01-16 Thread Dave Sparro
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: >> One (icky) solution is to hand out more addresses for one server than the >> otherŠ >> >> www.example.com  IN  A  192.168.1.1 >> www.example.com  IN  A  192.168.1.2 >> www.example.com  IN  A  192.168.1.3 >> www.example.com  IN  A  192.168.

Re: load balance of DNS

2012-01-16 Thread Sten Carlsen
On 16/01/12 20:52, Barry Margolin wrote: > In article , > Warren Kumari wrote: > >> On Jan 13, 2012, at 2:30 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: >> >>> In article , >>> Simon wrote: >>> Hi, sure it is. Here a more detailed version: http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch9/rr.htm

Re: load balance of DNS

2012-01-16 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , Warren Kumari wrote: > On Jan 13, 2012, at 2:30 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: > > > In article , > > Simon wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> sure it is. > >> > >> Here a more detailed version: > >> http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch9/rr.html > > > > RR usually results in roughly equal

Re: load balance of DNS

2012-01-16 Thread Warren Kumari
On Jan 13, 2012, at 2:30 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: > In article , > Simon wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> sure it is. >> >> Here a more detailed version: >> http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch9/rr.html > > RR usually results in roughly equal load balancing. He said he wants > one of the addresses to

Re: load balance of DNS

2012-01-13 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , Simon wrote: > Hi, > > sure it is. > > Here a more detailed version: > http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch9/rr.html RR usually results in roughly equal load balancing. He said he wants one of the addresses to get MORE traffic than the other. How do you propose he specify the r

Re: load balance of DNS

2012-01-13 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 13.01.12 22:40, MyDots.net wrote: > >Is there a good way of running the current BIND (9.7 and later) for > >load balancing a special record? > >for example, > > > >www.example.com IN A 192.168.1.1 > >www.example.com IN A 192.168.1.2 > > kin

Re: load balance of DNS

2012-01-13 Thread David Klein
With stock DNS, no; all you can do is recommend by ordering the responses. But there are solutions. There are load-balancing DNS servers (they have a pool of responses, and hand out an answer of that pool, based on rules, and can even remove an answer from the pool if a watchdog/monitor fails). F5

Re: load balance of DNS

2012-01-13 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 13.01.12 22:40, MyDots.net wrote: Is there a good way of running the current BIND (9.7 and later) for load balancing a special record? for example, www.example.com IN A 192.168.1.1 www.example.com IN A 192.168.1.2 kind of. I want the first one to get more web traffic than the secon

Re: load balance of DNS

2012-01-13 Thread Simon
Hi, sure it is. Here a more detailed version: http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch9/rr.html Regards, Simon On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:40:31 +0800, MyDots.net wrote: Hi, Is there a good way of running the current BIND (9.7 and later) for load balancing a special record? for example, www.example.co

load balance of DNS

2012-01-13 Thread MyDots.net
Hi, Is there a good way of running the current BIND (9.7 and later) for load balancing a special record? for example, www.example.com IN A 192.168.1.1 www.example.com IN A 192.168.1.2 I want the first one to get more web traffic than the second one. I know other 4 or 7 layer software (l