Search Again: Re: Load Balancing and Subdomain Name From: Aaron Lynch Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 Time: 1:45:00 am I sure hope you guys are rethinking your fault tolerance... I need to be able to have queries go to a secondary server (NT or Unix) if the primary is down. Currently, all servers need to have Webstar V hosts, which I hate. Also, Will a public Beta program be forthcoming? (I need this like yesterday) -A- Men & Mice Support wrote: > 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