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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