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> I thought of that. I'm just looking for something a bit more dynamic. I
> suppose I could always write the code myself. :-)


Another option for a 'poor man' load balancer is to do it on the DNS side
of things, with low (5 min?) TTL's.  It's trivial to write a script that
modifies and reloads zones if a machine dies - even more so with djbdns and
Mon.

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