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Date:      Sun, 18 Jan 1998 17:17:37 +0300
From:      "Mikhail A. Sokolov" <mishania@demos.su>
To:        "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
Cc:        Ernie Elu <ernie@spooky.eis.net.au>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Distributed Proxy Servers
Message-ID:  <19980118171737.56366@demos.su>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980117131139.29251L-100000@panda.hilink.com.au>; from Daniel O'Callaghan <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> on Sat, Jan 17, 1998 at 01:14:40PM %2B1100
References:  <199801170158.LAA13530@spooky.eis.net.au> <Pine.BSF.3.91.980117131139.29251L-100000@panda.hilink.com.au>

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On Sat, Jan 17, 1998 at 01:14:40PM +1100, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote:
# 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.

Or else assign several machines one name, crosslink those with sibling 
relationships via other "real" IPs. Ugly, but works.
# 
# 
# Danny

-- 
-mishania



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