Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:45:48 +1000 (EST) From: Enno Davids <enno.davids@metva.com.au> To: shovey@buffnet.net (Steve Hovey) Cc: cygone@zoomnet.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loadbalance webservers Message-ID: <199908031445.AAA01245@metva.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908030847010.9007-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> from Steve Hovey at "Aug 3, 99 08:47:16 am"
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| From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> | | Anyone know a good place they can point me to for the how-tos of round | robin DNS? | | On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Mitch Vincent wrote: | | > Isn't the most common way of load balancing something like a web server, | > just round-robin DNS? | > | > I know there are several hardware solutions for load balancing, but I'd say | > round-robin is the most commonly used non-hardware method. Unless you're using a very old bind you just put more than one A record against the name in the zone file. The server serves the addresses as a list with random ordering and the client is also supposed to choose randomly from any list it receives. So in short, www IN A 192.9.200.1 IN A 192.9.200.129 or some variation of this theme in the zone file is all you need. Enno. ------- Enno Davids Metva P/L, P.O.Box 2669, Phone: +61 3 9583 5474 enno.davids@metva.com.au Cheltenham 3192, Australia Mobile: +61 15 316 522 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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