Search Again: Re: Load Balancing question From: Men & Mice Support Date: Saturday, June 10, 2000 Time: 7:16:14 pm At 8:59 PM -0500 6/10/00, Dennis J. Bonsall, Jr. wrote: >What's the best way to set up a load balancing record for both a record >listing the hostname (www) prepended, and one without? I seem to >remember being told once in the past not to setup two LBR's for the same >domain. And, on top of that, when I have tried, I have run into >problems of being unable to save changes to the domain, until I deleted >both, and then re-entered only one in. Of course, if there is no way to >load balance the domain itself, then the domain is pointed only to one >server. If that server is down, the site cannot be accessed without >entering the www in front of the domain (something a lot of people won't >even try). Is there a way around this? Otherwise, if not, then the one >server to which all the domain records are primarily pointed to becomes >far more important that the other, as there is no backup for domains >entered in a browser without the host... > >(I hope that made sense..) Makes perfect sense. Unfortunately, with the current implementation of load balance records, you can't load balance any name that has any other records. That includes the name of the domain itself. While that restriction will be lifted in version 3, that's cold comfort now. The best you can do is to prevent people from bookmarking the name without the www. You can do that by setting up a separate virtual host on your web server for the name without the www. Put no files in the virtual hosts' folder, except for an error page. The error page redirects users to the site with the www. If your error page is not simply static HTML, you should even be able to redirect users to the same location on the main site, rather than just sending them to the front page. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

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