From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 9 15:39:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D22F114DBB for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:39:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA33899; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 17:39:32 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 17:39:32 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "Mark L. Holloway" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD Cluster? Message-ID: <19990609173932.A33864@dan.emsphone.com> References: <375ecbf5.133.0@flashmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <375ecbf5.133.0@flashmail.com>; from "Mark L. Holloway" on Wed Jun 9 13:17:57 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jun 09), Mark L. Holloway said: > Can FreeBSD cluster? If you were setting servers for high bandwidth > demands (real audio/video, shoutcast, web, ftp) what would be the > ideal configuration? Just wondering.. I read an interview with Linus > that Linux has this ability. For simple things like load-balancing web/ftp services, you don't need clustering at all. Simply have a bunch of machines all set up with the same DNS name: $ host ftp.netscape.com ftp.netscape.com has address 207.200.79.198 ftp.netscape.com has address 204.131.112.43 ftp.netscape.com has address 204.131.112.52 ftp.netscape.com has address 207.200.72.74 ftp.netscape.com has address 207.200.72.21 ftp.netscape.com has address 207.200.79.194 ftp.netscape.com has address 207.200.79.195 ftp.netscape.com has address 207.200.79.196 ftp.netscape.com has address 207.200.79.197 -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message