QDNS/Webstar 4.2 Load Balancing question

Re: QDNS/Webstar 4.2 Load Balancing question

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Your setup sounds correct, and the test you made is the correct test,
with results that indicate a problem. Therefore, in order for anyone
to test this remotely, you'll need to give us the actual name of the
load balance record.
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At 2:24 PM -0500 9/6/00, Shahnul Islam wrote:
>Hi.
>
>This one is a little long but I wanted to let you guys know all the details.
>
>I have two servers with qdns and webstar on both machines (I am
>using the new load balance plugin and not the old responder plugin).
>They both serve multiple vitual hosts and each host is mirrored as follows:
>
>serverA IP: *.*.*.2 (this is dns1)
>serverB IP: *.*.*.3 (this is dns2)
>
>Virtual hosts (9)
>domainX.com resides on serverA with an ip of *.*.*.20
>domainX.com also resides on serverB with ip of *.*.*.21
>
>I have setup a load balancing record for domainX.com on serverB with
>both serverA and serverB in the dns fields.
>Then I put in the two ip addresses (20 & 21) in the load balancing
>hosts field.
>
>I then created a secondary load balancing record on serverA which
>has the following:
>domain name: domainX.com
>filename: domainX LBR
>IP address 1:*.*.*.2
>IP address 2:*.*.*.3
>
>Now I tested the setup on a client machine.
>When I use the dns2 as my primary dns then I ping domainX.com and
>get an ip of 20 and 21 alternately (this seems like the load
>balancing is working). however, when I use dns1 as my preffered dns
>I only get .20 (which is the virtual ip on dns1).
>
>Should not the alternating ip scenario be the case regardless of the
>dns i use as my primary?
>Am I doing something wrong?
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Thank you for your time.
>
>Shahnul Islam

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