Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

["Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson () dsto defence gov au>]

    0n Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 02:42:57PM -0500, david raistrick wrote: 

    >On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Rhys Rhaven wrote:
    >
    >> Having hit these issues myself, I heavily recommend a real frontend
    >> proxy like nginx or varnish.
    >
    >A frontend proxy (nginx, varnish, haproxy, or anything else) doesnt give 
    >you HA any more than any other loadbalancer solution does.  You need a way 
    >to send traffic to another frontend server when the primary frontend 
    >server fails, or is overloaded, transparently.

freebsd + varnish + carp (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/carp.html)

  -Alex

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