Search Again: Re: Load Balancing and Subdomain Name From: Jesse Proudman Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 Time: 3:45:00 am On the note of feature requests, I really need a DNS server to be able to listen on multiple IP addresses. :) Jesse Proudman - NineWire Productions http://www.ninewire.com <-> jesse@ninewire.com Innovative and Creative Web Design and Hosting > -----Original Message----- > From: quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com > [mailto:quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com]On Behalf Of Aaron Lynch > Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 5:45 PM > To: QuickDNS Talk > Subject: Re: Load Balancing and Subdomain Name > > > 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