From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Aug 2 9:37:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ethel.basspro.com (mail.basspro.com [12.14.224.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C43814FEC for ; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 09:37:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from troyk@basspro.com) Received: from netgate.basspro.com by ethel.basspro.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/29Jan96-0343PM) id AA22864; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 11:37:43 -0500 Message-Id: <37A5C97B.AEA99B3E@basspro.com> Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 11:38:19 -0500 From: Troy Kittrell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: LutzRab@omc.net Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loadbalance webservers References: <199908021604.SAA16197@office.omc.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org We looked at DNS load balancing but I wasn't at all thrilled with the problems that come from other DNS servers caching the addresses. We're using apache 1.3.6 with mod_proxy and mod_rewrite without any problems. It's easy to configure and also seems to work using it with virtual domains as well. The latter isn't in production but I've tested it under minor load and seems okay... Lutz Rabing wrote: > We have the problem to split the traffic to a busy website on two or > more webservers. This needs to be done in a way that the client doesn't > realize that there are different machines serving the same domain. > > We use 3.2.STABLE with apache 1.3.6/php. > > Is there an approach to do this under FreeBSD? > > I guess that yahoo.com does not have just one frontend webserver... > > lutz rabing > -OMCnet Internet Service GmbH- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message