From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 4 03:29:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA03326 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 4 Apr 1998 03:29:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA03320 for ; Sat, 4 Apr 1998 03:29:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA04101; Sat, 4 Apr 1998 12:29:09 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Message-ID: <352619A7.AA55C944@tdx.co.uk> Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 12:29:43 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chad Wagner CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Building a web server... References: <199804032212.RAA22974@tsunami.sodre.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You could setup another 'virtual' server on another IP address (even if it's on the same machine) then put multiple entries for your 'www' address in your domain DNS records - so they will take 'alternate' hits...? - or even go 4 way etc.? Kp Chad Wagner wrote: > > I am working on building a web server that runs under FreeBSD 2.2.6, and I was > wondering what can be done in the case of 'port clogging', i.e. too many > requests to the port and it is backlogged due to this. What can be done to > alleviate this? It seems like a TCP implementation issue, but almost every > UNIX OS does it this way, obviously for a reason which is unknown to me. > > Any ideas on building a web server that can handle a significant amount of > hits per second would be greatly appreciated. TIA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message