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> Unfortunately, with the current implementation of load balance
Re: Load Balancing question
From: Dennis J. Bonsall, Jr.
Date: Saturday, June 10, 2000
Time: 7:49:55 pm
> 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.
>
At least that gives me something to look forward to... :)
Actually, I am not that impatient, so long as I know it is on the drawing
board. I bought QDNS many months ago (perhaps as long as a year), and have
just recently started implementing the load balancing aspect. I had much
preparation to do, such as writing a WebCatalog "program" to update the
opposite server whenever a database or shopping cart file was updated. I
guess that it is not that big of a problem, as many sites that I have
connected to (on other servers) often will not answer if no hostname is
prepended to the domain.
As for the redirecting issue, I have a setup similar to yours listed above,
although I just point all the other virtual host records to the same folder,
but tell them that their index file is something else (usually
redirect.html). And, of course, this file is a WebStar redirect file. As
such, this only works when someone accesses the index file, without the
hostname. I don't suppose that there is any way to setup a DNS server-level
redirect (or in version 30.), so that whenever someone attempts to connect
to the hostname-less domain name, they are instead redirected to a one of
the hosts?
Dennis
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