Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 08:27:58 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Multiple http servers - howto ? Message-ID: <199511141527.IAA19839@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199511140855.JAA01909@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Nov 14, 95 09:55:29 am
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> I have read that some http servers (probably some machines at NCSA) > are actually a cluster of servers attached to the same ethernet. Client > transparently contact one of the servers. I would like to know how this > is achieved, e.g. > > i) by supplying different IP translations for the same name; > ii) by a clever use of ARP > iii) by some other technique which I do not know #1. Via DNS. The requesting hosts are rotored through a list of the addresses. It isn't a very good scheme, mostly because caching exists. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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