From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Aug 2 17:46:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from snafu.adept.org (adsl-63-193-112-19.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.112.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C93C14BDC for ; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 17:46:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@snafu.adept.org) Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by snafu.adept.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA06431; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 17:46:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 17:45:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Hoskins To: "Jan B. Koum " Cc: LutzRab@omc.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loadbalance webservers In-Reply-To: <19990802091321.A18716@best.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Jan B. Koum wrote: > I think right now we got about 10 machines serving for www main site > using DNS load balancing... (just 'nslookup www.yahoo.com') Curious... have you guys modified DNS in some way, or do you just do standard round-robin? I've read about DNS-based approaches with low TTLs to avoid excessive caching of any single record, but how does such an approach handle downed servers w/o modification? Later, --mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message