Re: bad idea?

["Devin P. Anderson" <devin () stargate net>]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Jeremiah Kristal wrote:

> Given a small, globally routable netblock to be used for front-end web
> servers, and a strong aversion for using DNS for any type of load
> balancing, would it be reasonable to build two identical servers farms
> with the same public IP addresses and rely on the BGP sessions with the
> hosing providers to remove one advertisement in the event of a problem? 
> I've been looking at ways to ensure that the webservers are always
> available, short of building a network connecting hosting facilities.

Dude, saying things like that on this group is likely to get you executed.
Building a discontigious AS isn't the answer.

Have you looked at the global load balacing products like Cisco's
Distributed Director or Arrowpoints's whatever they call it? There are
many products that do both global and local load balacing, each one is
different has has a specific application they fit best. It would be silly
to recommend a product to you without understanding your application, so
check out these companies and see for yourself:

Cisco (LocalDirector and DistributedDirector)
Foundry (Server Iron)
Alteon (ACE Director)
Arrowpoint (CS-xxx)
F5 Labs (BIG/ip & 3DNS)
Resonate
BrightTiger

Some are software solutions, some are hardware that run on PC's and some
are ASIC based solutions. See what fits.

later-

devin

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