RE: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron

["Dmitri Krioukov" <dima () dimension net>]

radware also had that rather original
triangle data flow mechanism i
mentioned. frankly speaking, i don't
know what happened to it. in its
intact form, it doesn't work anyway.
--
dima.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of
> Brantley Jones
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 10:45 AM
> To: Mike Diehn
> Cc: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron
>
>
>
> At 10:19 AM 7/6/2000 -0400, Mike Diehn wrote:
> > * Brantley Jones (bjones () redundant net) [07 05, 2000 22:30]:
> > > At 09:28 PM 7/5/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> > >
> > > > they also have the dns based solution available on
> > > > serverirons.  -- dima.
> > >
> > > Speaking of using a DNS proxy, does anybody know of anybody
> > > else doing this besides Foundry??
> >
> > Radware's WSD (Web Server Director) plays DNS server for clients
> > wanting to resolve a hostname to the IP of a close (from a network
> > latency perspective) server farm.
> >
> > It isn't a DNS proxy, though.  It's acting as the authoritative
> > DNS server for specific hostnames delegated to it by the servers
> > authoritative for the parent zone.
> >
> > Resonate does that, too.  And so does Cisco's global Director (I
> > think).
> >
> > Is that what you were after?
> >
> > Mike
>
> Kind of.  What we're trying to do here is provide a back-up only approach
> for Internet service via NAT and VRRP/HSRP at the customer premise.  The
> problem is with people hosting applications on-site that require DNS
> (www,MX,etc.).  Trying to avoid using BGP as a back-up mechanism in this
> case (for obvious reasons), if I could find a product that could act as a
> authoritative DNS with a TTL of 0 or something, and only send replies for
> applications when the primary IP was down or unreachable, and then
> statically NAT our address over to the primary address at the customer
> premise, I think we could have a pretty good solution for
> providing back-up
> Internet service, including web, mail, etc. applications.  I will
> definitely take a look at all the listed products and would appreciate
> anyone's input on this matter.
>
> Thanks!
> Brantley