Loadbalance caching dns server

[Kevin Darcy]

On 3/20/2012 5:19 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> On 20.03.12 14:41, trm asn wrote:
>> Is there any mechanism to load balance Caching-DNS server. For example..
>>
>> Cache-DNS1 : 192.168.1.98
>> Cache-DNS2: 192.168.1.99
>>
>> Client : 192.168.1.199
>>
>> When  192.168.1.199 send 10 request to query cache-dns then this 10 
>> request
>> will be send to each Cache-DNS server with a load balance method. Each
>> server will get 5 requests.
>
> there are network appliances that allow to do such thing. For example, 
> nortel alteon, cisco ACE, or linux ipvs.
>
For the price of a Cisco ACE, one could probably buy a big enough DNS 
caching-server HA cluster, that one wouldn't have to load-balance the 
query load over multiple IPs :-)

                                                                         
                                             - Kevin