Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:39:14 +0300 From: Stefan Lambrev <stefan.lambrev@sun-fish.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bind round robin Message-ID: <450FBAC2.5020600@sun-fish.com> In-Reply-To: <450FB8AF.7040700@goodforbusiness.co.uk> References: <450F8777.7080407@gmail.com> <20060919083955.GB87657@e-Gitt.NET> <450FAF42.50401@goodforbusiness.co.uk> <200609191216.24457.dzalewski@open-craft.com> <450FB8AF.7040700@goodforbusiness.co.uk>
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Dominic Marks wrote: > From the original message: > > [1] >>>>> >>>>> www IN A 10.10.10.10 >>>>> www IN A 192.168.0.10 >>>>> > >> >> From pen homepage: >> >> "This is pen, a load balancer for "simple" tcp based protocols such >> as http or smtp." >> >> As I know DNS uses both tcp and udp protocols. > > From the posters excerpt it looks like they are looking to load > balance HTTP. [1] > >> For failover you can try OpenBSD Packet Filter with CARP protocol. PF >> can do load-balacing using different algorithms also. CARP is ported >> to FreeBSD. More info on: http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/carp.html > > Also true. Last time I looked at this however there was a big > disclaimer saying that > CARP's load balancing was likely to give a distorted distribution of > load and I don't > believe it does weighting. I believe this would also be a problem > considering the > example in [1]: > > From carp(4): > > Note: ARP balancing only works on the local network segment. It > cannot > balance traffic that crosses a router, because the router itself > will > always be balanced to the same virtual host. > > Cheers, > Dominic Yes but the idea here is to use http balancer that runs on CARP interface(s) for fail-over. Balancing will be done by balancer ;) > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Best Wishes, Stefan Lambrev ICQ# 24134177
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