From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Aug 2 11:50:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from cobia.corp.gulf.net (cobia.corp.gulf.net [206.105.61.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90AA114DEF for ; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 11:50:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phill@cobia.gulf.net) Received: from localhost (phill@localhost) by cobia.corp.gulf.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA04433; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 18:52:49 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 18:52:49 -0500 (CDT) From: X-Sender: phill@cobia.corp.gulf.net To: Troy Kittrell Cc: LutzRab@omc.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loadbalance webservers In-Reply-To: <37A5C97B.AEA99B3E@basspro.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I remember reading something on Microsoft's webpage on how they setup www.microsoft.com with a single IP, and had it hit several different machines. Maybe something like this could be done for your situation. You could possibly fake something like: |--------------| | www.site.com | | (public IP) | |--------------| _______________|_________________ | | | 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.3 You may be able to trick natd into doing something like this. Roundrobin DNS on a local network only? I know you can redirect natd to an internal machine for a certain port... it's not hard. There may be a certain program that does this, I cannot recall. --- Phillip Salzman phill@freebsd.org On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Troy Kittrell wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message