Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 16:41:12 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius) Cc: nc@ai.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Load Balancing/Sharing w/ FreeBSD Message-ID: <199506290711.QAA22135@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950628224603.11754G-100000@misery.sdf.com> from "Tom Samplonius" at Jun 28, 95 10:52:07 pm
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Tom Samplonius stands accused of saying: > > DNS servers will just sequentially cycle through a list of servers, it > > won't intelligently find the least busy machine. Is there a way to do it > > intelligently with DNS? > > True, but is your best option as it would need to be done before the > login begins. How would a busy machine pass off a login? Also, named > could be hacked to be a little more intelligent that a round robin scheme. DLS (the distributed login service) is what you want. Users get the DLS login on the modem server, which offers their credentials to the network. I know it can be used to share modem servers between several seperate hosts, I suspect that if it doesn't currently understand load averages, that it could easily be taught. > Tom -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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