Search Again: Re: How to Load balance? From: Men & Mice Support Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 Time: 2:42:59 pm At 10:03 AM -0700 4/10/01, Helen & Tony Baczynski wrote: >I have an A CNAME record for *.example.com. > >Will it work ok with www in the name field while keeping the CNAME? A load balance record named 'www' will not have any conflict with a CNAME record named '*'. You can leave the CNAME record in place. >And is there a difference in 9999 and 1 & 99 and 1 for the preference Yes. While both servers are operational, in the former case, one server will get approximately 0.01% of the traffic; in the latter case, it will get approximately 1% of the traffic, which is 100 times more. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy! >>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. >>> >> >>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