From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Aug 3 20: 8:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from snafu.adept.org (adsl-63-193-112-19.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.112.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3922914EF6 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 20:08:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@snafu.adept.org) Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by snafu.adept.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA13630; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 20:08:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 20:08:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Hoskins To: Gregory Sutter Cc: Steve Hovey , Mitch Vincent , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loadbalance webservers In-Reply-To: <19990803192652.N91284@forty-two.egroups.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Gregory Sutter wrote: > > Anyone know a good place they can point me to for the how-tos of round > > robin DNS? > O'Reilly Publishing, "DNS and Bind", 3rd edition, p. 259. Also, note that this is eqivalent to 'static routing'... If a box goes down, DNS won't care... it'll still shuffle the traffic across the downed box's A record... with a large number of machines in a cluster, that may not matter, but with 2, 3, 4... you can loose a lot of traffic. That's why hardware solutions (or other software solutions) are typically implemented by companies requiring high resource availability. --Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message