From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 12 23:22:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA23736 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 23:22:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.gbdata.com (GB2.Brewich.COM [207.90.222.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA23728; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 23:22:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gclarkii@localhost) by main.gbdata.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) id BAA17377; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 01:19:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Gary Clark II Message-Id: <199608130619.BAA17377@main.gbdata.com> Subject: Re: Load-balancing box To: brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com (Brandon Gillespie) Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 01:19:03 -0500 (CDT) Cc: michaelh@cet.co.jp, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, danny@panda.hilink.com.au, sos@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, ipfilter@coombs.anu.edu.au In-Reply-To: from Brandon Gillespie at "Aug 12, 96 08:55:30 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brandon Gillespie wrote: > On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Michael Hancock wrote: > > > > webserverA is what DNS advertises. webservers 1 to 3 have mirrored > > content. > > > > Wouldn't it be simpler to hack the name daemon to do the load balancing, > so when they lookup 'www.xxx.yyy' it picks a machine and directs them to > the IP for 'wwwX.xxx.yyy'? From that point on you dont care what they are > doing. I know VMS can cluster like this, without a problem (through > MultiNet). Part of the problem is going to be cacheing of ip numbers by systems. Plus older system will only take the first IP address given to them and toss the rest. Both of these can cause one system to get beaten up on. > > Sorry if this has already been discussed, I'm jumping into the discussion > rather late .. > > -Brandon Gillespie- > -- Gary Clark II (N5VMF) | I speak only for myself and "maybe" my company gclarkii@GBData.COM | Member of the FreeBSD Doc Team Providing Internet and ISP startups mail info@GBData.COM for information FreeBSD FAQ at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/docs/freebsd-faq.ascii