Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 19:15:06 +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: <107624744755.20011211191506@buz.ch> In-Reply-To: <PGECILGGNJGDPJKLFEMIEEBACJAA.dpuryear@usa.net> References: <PGECILGGNJGDPJKLFEMIEEBACJAA.dpuryear@usa.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello Dustin, Tuesday, December 11, 2001, 6:29:35 PM, you wrote: > Yes, that is what I eventually found out. Apparently, unless you > have some type of special gear, you cannot do IP-based virtual > hosting in a > load-sharing or -balancing environment. Now, doing HA might not be > too much work depending on what your requirements for switch over > time are. <10s is doable with standard gear. <1s is quite a bit harder but perhaps still doable. >> That's nice. I wished I were in the same situation... > Yes, it is nice. I have yet to do work for a company providing web > hosting to consumers, but I can see how it would have some real > challenges. But it It certainly has. > synchronization issue. NAS being one. A second is using a few > "shell" servers that automatically get replicated to your web > servers seems to be another. I've been thinking about that approach too, but it doesn't buy you much since there are still that morons that use the FS as DB... >> Squid should do the job too, more flexibly, but probably slower. > I played with Squid and it works nicely. Indeed, I liked the fact > that with Squid I can make my web cluster disappear from outsiders > and use Squid as a reverse proxy. However, since we dropped the > requirement for IP-based virtual hosting the point is moot. We will > be using just a standard configuration where we will DNS > round-robin between web servers. That's the easiest approach, of course. OTOH, I haven't got a very high opinion of DNS round robin since it essentially still lets the remote client fuck it up... Best regards, Gabriel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5i iQEVAwUBPBY/HcZa2WpymlDxAQFoUQgAuCZrFy8u5EILeyiLBgjtLuRVcLhX8ItT 3LfKOnw2ve513rx4F6gT9nVNrapH4jWYtidrBla4Z8xtH3N6Yem9r53To6xCqYpd GMxv8RZdxuZtXCV92CnDxeKGIZ89nPBPFAsC6sQkDPX3jThf9+t6jI59J9rroqq+ rwP63//vR8Pq63//Q7Lc7/TgAE6jJHs0nAXadiq1mUSwFZVF+nUgPYU3BnN9iyud 7CLLxYnArXguGZRx2wfdskPiZ7ZCSl5mC78kUimTDHLXrV2VofyzjIJWBcWyMzNA d9fo9b9OtDKRj3Hnvj5MpDjJySaxDBsyY15NaecYlAVazQIWuRMUyQ== =5dpk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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