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Date:      Thu, 18 May 2006 22:54:55 +0000
From:      Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org>
To:        Michael Jeung <mjeung@cisdata.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Load Balancing
Message-ID:  <20060518225455.5d58e4de.lists@yazzy.org>
In-Reply-To: <3D7C7275-432A-448D-82D6-AB551A1CE256@cisdata.net>
References:  <3D7C7275-432A-448D-82D6-AB551A1CE256@cisdata.net>

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On Thu, 18 May 2006 15:42:24 -0700
Michael Jeung <mjeung@cisdata.net> wrote:

> Hey folks,
> 
> We currently use DNS round-robin to balance traffic to servers.   
> We've recently run into situations where multiple search engine  
> spiders are crawling our webservers.  They appear to be targeting  
> specific webservers by IP address.  This defeats DNS round-robin and  
> as a result 1 of our webservers starts responding very slowly since  
> it's full of search engine spiders.
> 
> I recently looked at the port solution "'balance" and it seems like a  
> great answer for our problems.  The difficulty I'm running into now  
> is that if I put all the webservers behind a single balance server,  
> now the webservers are only receiving traffic from the balance server  
> and this messes up our traffic reporting tools since it now looks  
> like all the traffic is coming from a single IP address.
> 
> I'm sure this is a common problem.  Does anyone have a good solution  
> to this?  Essentially, I want all the benefits of load-balancing with  
> none of the single-IP-traffic drawbacks. =)

Take a look at pf.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html



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