Search Again: Re: How to Load balance? From: Men & Mice Support Date: Thursday, January 4, 2001 Time: 8:53:25 pm At 6:25 PM -0800 1/4/01, Patrick Windmiller wrote: >Can anyone give me step by step instructions on how to load balance >with the new 3.0 QDNS. > >What record entries do we need to have in the domain? OK, suppose you want to load balance www.example.com. In the example.com domain, you already have an A record or CNAME record for www.example.com. With the example.com zone window open: Step 1: Remove the existing A or CNAME record for www.example.com; it would otherwise conflict with the load balance record. Step 2: From the Edit menu, open the Insert Record submenu and choose Load Balance Record. A dialog box will appear. Step 3: Enter the following values into the available fields: Name: www Time-to-live: 300 Interval: 30 Hostlife: 60 Step 4: Enter the IP address of each web server under "Host address". In the Preference column, enter numbers such as 5 or 20 or whatever for each server. Hits will be assigned proportionately. Step 5: Make sure the "Slave servers" box has the correct settings; most likely, what it says (if anything) will be correct. Step 6: Click OK. Save the zone. Wait for the zone to load on the primary server, then cause it to be loaded on the secondary server(s) - restart them. Step 7: Launch QuickDNS Pro Load Balancer on each server involved. Make sure that it launches at boot time - put it in the Startup Items folder, or in the Keep It Up Items folder (or whatever it's called), or otherwise add it to the boot routine. Step 8: Check your configuration using LB Tester, which is in the Utilities folder. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!

Messages In This Thread: How to Load balance? by Patrick Windmiller on Jan 4, 2001 at 6:29:27 pm Re: How to Load balance? by Men & Mice Support on Jan 4, 2001 at 8:53:25 pm Re: How to Load balance? by Dennis J. Bonsall, Jr. on Jan 4, 2001 at 10:07:17 pm Re: How to Load balance? by Men & Mice Support on Jan 5, 2001 at 2:57:33 am Re: How to Load balance? by Helen & Tony Baczynski on Apr 10, 2001 at 10:04:14 am Re: How to Load balance? by Men & Mice Support on Apr 10, 2001 at 2:42:59 pm