DNS (round robin) loadbalance and redundancy

David Botham DBotham at OptimusSolutions.com
Thu Jun 3 21:01:35 UTC 2004


bind-users-bounce at isc.org wrote on 06/03/2004 03:19:16 PM:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is it possible to use DNS/Bind for more than just round robin load 

Round robin is not load balancing.

> balance and let it detect if one over the servers is down?

There neiter the DNS protocol(s) nor BIND have this functinality.  I 
recommend something like Netscaler or F5...


hth,


Dave...

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Eddy
> 
> 




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