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Date:      Tue, 11 Dec 2001 18:12:28 +0100
From:      Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>
To:        "Dustin Puryear" <dpuryear@usa.net>
Cc:        isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re[10]: Using DNAT and DNS round-robin
Message-ID:  <68620987432.20011211181228@buz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <PGECILGGNJGDPJKLFEMIAEAOCJAA.dpuryear@usa.net>
References:  <PGECILGGNJGDPJKLFEMIAEAOCJAA.dpuryear@usa.net>

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Hello Dustin,

Tuesday, December 11, 2001, 6:00:10 PM, you wrote:

>> NAS has got the big problem of being a single point of failure.
>> But 
> Not necessarily. There are a few NAS HA solutions out there. I know
> that NetApps has one. In fact, I doubt the whole NAS industry would
> get far without it.

Well.... There are NetApps that can mirror themselves to another one,
AFAIK, but I can't comment on either their reliability or their
speed.

>> other load balancing than round robin but OTOH, the system is
>> capable to skip NAT altogether and use DNS round robin or whatever
>> else which isn't possible with LVS, IIRC).
> I'm not familiar with FVS. What is it?

My own private analogy to LVS. If LVS is Linux Virtual Server, then
FVS is FreeBSD Virtual Server ;-)

>> since Linux won't support bidirectional popen(), I'm somewhat
>> stuck until I manage to get a custom version of it to work...
> Sounds like you have a fun week ahead of you. Good luck.

Uhm yeah. Or I simply sell them a FreeBSD box where the whole thing
works just charmingly... Their RedHat 7.0 doesn't even appear to dump
core
or notify me of segfaults anyway. Broken OS, if you ask me.




Best regards,
 Gabriel

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