DNS (round robin) loadbalance and redundancy
Jean-Christophe Smith
jsmith at vitalstream.com
Thu Jun 3 20:00:01 UTC 2004
Check out http://www.tenereillo.com/GSLBPageOfShame.htm
and
http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/docs/bind-load-bal.php
It goes into detail about some of the issues with using DNS as a
mechanism for load balancing and fail-over. There are solutions both GNU
and expensive(F5 3DNS & Radware WSD, etc) for doing it, but they may not
work as you would imagine. Some are based off BIND
Jean-Christophe Smith
VitalStream
-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of tw
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 12:19 PM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
Subject: DNS (round robin) loadbalance and redundancy
Hi all,
Is it possible to use DNS/Bind for more than just round robin load=20
balance and let it detect if one over the servers is down?
Thanks,
Eddy
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