From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Dec 10 7:57:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from c007.snv.cp.net (c007-h013.c007.snv.cp.net [209.228.33.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 727EC37B419 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 07:57:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (cpmta 12258 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2001 07:57:37 -0800 Received: from 216.227.100.85 (HELO vector) by smtp.telocity.com (209.228.33.220) with SMTP; 10 Dec 2001 07:57:37 -0800 X-Sent: 10 Dec 2001 15:57:37 GMT From: "Dustin Puryear" To: "Gabriel Ambuehl" , "Colin Campbell" Cc: Subject: RE: Re[6]: Using DNAT and DNS round-robin Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:05:31 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: <165508379701.20011210105541@buz.ch> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hello Colin, > > Monday, December 10, 2001, 6:58:41 AM, you wrote: > > DNS round-robin will help "spread the load". Note that most > > browsers ignore any TTL settings and tend to "permanently" cache a > > successful name lookup. > > See my other mail. It won't buy you much despite trouble if you don't > solve the replication issues involved with load balancing... Well, one solution to this type of problem is to use remote storage such as NAS. I am working with another client that uses several webservers that hit a few Snap servers for all of their data. Using this method we can load-balance (using LVS and Red Hat's High Availability Services) to our heart's content. But you are correct that there is a problem if you leave the data on the local drive of each server. Regards, Dustin --- Dustin Puryear Information Systems Consultant http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear In the beginning the Universe was created. This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message