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Re: DNS Based Load Balancers
From: Paul Vixie <vixie () vix com>
Date: 02 Jul 2006 18:02:35 +0000
dave () rightmedia com ("David Temkin") writes:
So, you guys have been pretty clear on what he shouldn't do. What should he do as an alternative to using DNS for a proximity based solution?
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg245858.pdf http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/iaabu/distrdir/dd2501/ovr.htm http://www.radware.com/content/products/library/faq_wsd.pdf http://www.foundrynet.com/solutions/appNotes/GSLB.html http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/ifiadmin/staff/rofrei/DA/DA_Arbeiten_2000/Masutti_Oliver.pdf note that several of these describe or offer a dns-based solution as an option, but they all describe session-level redirection and most recommend that (as i do) and some even say "using dns for this is bad" (as i do, but for different reasons.) -- Paul Vixie
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- Re: DNS Based Load Balancers Paul Vixie (Jul 01)
- Re: DNS Based Load Balancers Matt Ghali (Jul 01)
- RE: DNS Based Load Balancers David Temkin (Jul 02)
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- RE: DNS Based Load Balancers David Temkin (Jul 02)
- Re: DNS Based Load Balancers Paul Vixie (Jul 02)
- Re: DNS Based Load Balancers John Payne (Jul 03)
- RE: DNS Based Load Balancers David Temkin (Jul 03)
- Re: DNS Based Load Balancers Paul Vixie (Jul 03)
- RE: DNS Based Load Balancers David Temkin (Jul 03)
- RE: DNS Based Load Balancers David Temkin (Jul 02)
- Re: DNS Based Load Balancers Matt Ghali (Jul 01)
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