Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 14:57:55 -0800 From: "Jonas Fornander" <jonas@netwood.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Mirroring/load-balance two servers Message-ID: <05a701c2e5c6$27f5ca20$0800a8c0@master> In-Reply-To: <20030306225004.7b954fdc.dpd@raffles-it.com>
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> > The only problem with using DNS round robin like this, is > that, in this scenario when 1 server is down, on average 1 in > 3 requests to the web server will fail. But as previous > posters have commented DNS should respond with the same 3 > addresses, but it will rotate the order each time, in the > version ( named 8.3.4-REL Sun Feb 9 01:23:18 GMT 2003 on > 4.7-STABLE of the same date ) I am using it appears to return > the addresses in some sort of random order at least it does > for me in my test. In reality, what happens to the user that connects to the offline server? Can he just refresh his browser and if he then gets one of the other IP addresses then the page will display fine? Jonas Fornander - System Administrator Netwood Communications, LLC - www.netwood.net Find out why we're better - 310-442-1530 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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