Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:00:10 -0600 From: "Dustin Puryear" <dpuryear@usa.net> To: "Gabriel Ambuehl" <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> Cc: <isp@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Re[8]: Using DNAT and DNS round-robin Message-ID: <PGECILGGNJGDPJKLFEMIAEAOCJAA.dpuryear@usa.net> In-Reply-To: <164616459602.20011211165700@buz.ch>
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> > Well, one solution to this type of problem is to use remote storage > > such as NAS. > > NAS has got the big problem of being a single point of failure. But Not necessarily. There are a few NAS HA solutions out there. I know that NetApps has one. In fact, I doubt the whole NAS industry would get far without it. > > 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. > > I'm working on something like FVS and despite the currently non > existent VS fail over and FS replication parts, it's working pretty > well (save for that fact that ipnat currently doesn't provide any > other load balancing than round robin but OTOH, the system is capable > to skip NAT altogether and use DNS round robin or whatever else which > isn't possible with LVS, IIRC). I'm not familiar with FVS. What is it? > I'm currently trying to port it to Linux (for a consulting client) > but > since Linux won't support bidirectional popen(), I'm somewhat stuck > until I manage to get a custom version of it to work... Sounds like you have a fun week ahead of you. Good luck. Regards, Dustin --- Dustin Puryear <dpuryear@usa.net> 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
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