Search Again: Re: QDNS Load Balancing From: Men & Mice Support Date: Tuesday, October 3, 2000 Time: 12:48:26 pm At 1:32 PM -0500 10/3/00, Shahnul Islam wrote: >Hello. > >I have setup QDNS and Webstar 4.2 loadbalancing succesfully between >two Mac servers running OS 8.6 >However, I have one question: > >It was my understanding the the load balancing was supposed to be >intelligent so that the hits that each server gets would be more or >less equal in number. >I rebooted the two servers at the same time and found that the >secondary server has 22000 hits versus only 7000 hits for the >primary server. > >Is this normal/ok? Did you use dynamic or fixed load preferences, in the plug-in configuration? If you used fixed, then it should be fairly even. If you used dynamic, then it might vary dramatically if neither server is under much load. Keep in mind that QuickDNS' responses don't *directly* affect hits to each web server. QuickDNS tells a given resolver (or a local workstation, if queried directly) the IP address of one of your servers. The browser that gets that IP address will remember it and stick to it, generally until the browser quits. >How can I make sure that I have everything configured correctly? Is >there some tool available? Look in the QuickDNS Pro folder, in the subfolder called WebSTAR QuickDNS Responder. In addition to the older plug-in, there's the program called Load Balance Testing, a simple FaceSpan applet that will query your DNS server several times and show you the distribution of answers. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!

Messages In This Thread: QDNS Load Balancing by Shahnul Islam on Oct 3, 2000 at 11:34:46 am Re: QDNS Load Balancing by Men & Mice Support on Oct 3, 2000 at 12:48:26 pm Re: QDNS Load Balancing by Shahnul Islam on Oct 4, 2000 at 7:26:52 am Re: QDNS Load Balancing by Men & Mice Support on Oct 4, 2000 at 9:49:33 am