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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