Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 13:14:40 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: Ernie Elu <ernie@spooky.eis.net.au> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Distributed Proxy Servers Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980117131139.29251L-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199801170158.LAA13530@spooky.eis.net.au>
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On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Ernie Elu wrote: > Is there a technique, that does not require special hardware, for > distibuting the load across 2 or more FreeBSD servers running squid? > > eg. proxy.foobar.com is really a bunch of FreeBSD servers all running squid > sharing the load. > > Also an important feature would be if one of the servers goes down the others > would take over the full load. Allocate a bunch of IP addresses to proxy.foobar.com, by putting multiple A records into the DNS. If the squids are all on the one ethernet, then you can arrange some program which detects that a proxy is down, and ifconfig alias its IP address onto a proxy which is OK. ifconfig alias delete when the broken proxy is alive again. Danny
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