From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 20 10:40:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D82DC16A40F for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:40:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@mail.neosystem.cz) Received: from mail.neosystem.cz (mail.neosystem.cz [87.236.197.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97DF043D55 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:40:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@mail.neosystem.cz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.neosystem.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48F4A380342 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:40:17 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at neosystem.cz Received: from mail.neosystem.cz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.neosystem.cz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id BPsa5f-JfLIy for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:40:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from moon.kancelar.seznam.cz (proxy.seznam.cz [212.80.76.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.neosystem.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id A737F38040E for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:40:14 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:27:39 +0200 From: Dan Bilik To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20060920122739.4f9ed310.dan@mail.neosystem.cz> In-Reply-To: <20060919083955.GB87657@e-Gitt.NET> References: <450F8777.7080407@gmail.com> <20060919083955.GB87657@e-Gitt.NET> Organization: neosystem.cz X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: bind round robin X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:40:20 -0000 Hi. On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:39:55 +0200 Oliver Brandmueller wrote: >> Is there a way to prioritize 10.10.10.10 over 192.168.0.10? How do i >> configure it? > ... > For serious redundancy with failover and/or load balancing with a good > leveling you should consider getting a load balancer (be it hardware or > software), better two so you don't have the single point of failure > there :-) Just info for those who may find it useful... There is a custom patch for BindBackend2 of PowerDNS that makes this DNS-level loadbalancing and failover possible. One can assign weights to A records and also keepalive watches so that "dead" addresses aren't served. It's configurable directly in zone through special TXT records. Find it at http://neosystem.cz/powerdns/pdns-2.9.20-keepalive.patch Dan