Search Again: Re: Load Balancing and Subdomain Name From: Men & Mice Support Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 Time: 1:35:00 am At 4:37 PM -0600 2/21/2000, Steve Dannaway wrote: >Hello, > >Here's a quickie -- I hope. I've got a load balanced setup with one >load balanced record and all other fully qualified domains CNAMEd over >to it. > >Is there any way that is "legal" under the guises of DNS to load balance >these subdomains (or whatever an address without without a hostname is >called -- example.org as opposed to www.example.org)? There isn't any way to load balance example.org if you're also going to have a record for www.example.org (or an MX record for example.org, or pretty much anything else along those lines). This is because a load balance record is currently implemented as a delegated subdomain. This restriction will not be present in QuickDNS 3, for which we have redesigned the load balance mechanism a bit. Unfortunately, QuickDNS 3 is still several months away. You can, of course, use round-robin load sharing on a name like example.org. This gives no fault tolerance, though. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: Load Balancing and Subdomain Name by Steve Dannaway on Feb 21, 2000 at 10:37:00 pm Re: Load Balancing and Subdomain Name by Men & Mice Support on Feb 23, 2000 at 1:35:00 am Re: Load Balancing and Subdomain Name by Aaron Lynch on Feb 23, 2000 at 1:45:00 am Re: Load Balancing and Subdomain Name by Jesse Proudman on Feb 23, 2000 at 3:45:00 am Re: Load Balancing and Subdomain Name by Men & Mice Support on Feb 23, 2000 at 5:51:00 am Re: Load Balancing and Subdomain Name by Jesse Proudman on Feb 23, 2000 at 6:00:00 am Re: Load Balancing and Subdomain Name by Aaron Lynch on Feb 23, 2000 at 6:19:00 am Re: Load Balancing and Subdomain Name by Men & Mice Support on Feb 23, 2000 at 7:01:00 am Re: Load Balancing and Subdomain Name by Jesse Proudman on Feb 23, 2000 at 7:07:00 am Re: Load Balancing and Subdomain Name by Men & Mice Support on Feb 23, 2000 at 7:51:00 am Re: Load Balancing and Subdomain Name by Sigurdur Ragnarsson on Feb 23, 2000 at 4:23:00 pm