Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 20:08:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Hoskins <mike@snafu.adept.org> To: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> Cc: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>, Mitch Vincent <cygone@zoomnet.net>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loadbalance webservers Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908032004160.13604-100000@snafu.adept.org> In-Reply-To: <19990803192652.N91284@forty-two.egroups.net>
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On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Gregory Sutter wrote: > > Anyone know a good place they can point me to for the how-tos of round > > robin DNS? > O'Reilly Publishing, "DNS and Bind", 3rd edition, p. 259. Also, note that this is eqivalent to 'static routing'... If a box goes down, DNS won't care... it'll still shuffle the traffic across the downed box's A record... with a large number of machines in a cluster, that may not matter, but with 2, 3, 4... you can loose a lot of traffic. That's why hardware solutions (or other software solutions) are typically implemented by companies requiring high resource availability. --Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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