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Date:      Tue, 18 Jun 2002 16:04:48 -0700
From:      Mahlon <mahlon@martini.nu>
To:        Randy Smith <randys@amigo.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPFW as load balancer
Message-ID:  <20020618160448.A50306@martini.nu>
In-Reply-To: <20020618092704.Q6594-100000@stalker.amigo.net>; from "randys@amigo.net" on Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 10:49:07AM
References:  <3D0F4B58.4030009@potentialtech.com> <20020618092704.Q6594-100000@stalker.amigo.net>

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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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