Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:02:28 -0600 From: "Damon M. Conway" <damon@chiba.3jane.net> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly Message-ID: <200001241702.LAA29953@chiba.3jane.net> In-Reply-To: <v04220809b4b1faa2a472@[195.238.1.121]> References: <XFMail.000121104339.jdp@polstra.com> <v04210101b4ae72ec9d9f@[128.113.24.47]> <20000121214218.A14016@skriver.dk> <v04210104b4ae80b7dbba@[128.113.24.47]> <v04220809b4b1faa2a472@[195.238.1.121]>
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Brad Knowles wrote: >At 4:43 PM -0500 2000/1/21, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >>>And to my best knowledge, BIND does not support anything >>>like that. >> >> Not directly, but I think there are ways you can have it call >> some external procedure to do "load-balancing" for an IP >> rotary. We talked about doing this to address a problem here >> at RPI, but then we figured out an alternate solution so we >> didn't really get to the point of implementing it. I don't >> know if that external load-balancing procedure is given the >> IP address of the host doing the lookup, for instance. > > There are even ways you can give the same physical IP address to >multiple machines, and let routing tricks deal with figuring out the >shortest possible path from the client to the server, based on where >they are. Take a look at the nameservers for mci.com sometime from >multiple different machines around the world. however, that would require those ips to be all be controlled by the same network entity (AS). if the aren't, then the complexity and the adminstrative costs of such a method make it totally unworkable. damon -- Damon Conway Black Rock City Ranger...Riding the edge of chaos On the constant path of the Ranger Art To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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