Search Again: Re: Load Balance to set a primary and "backup" server. From: Men & Mice Support Date: Saturday, May 5, 2001 Time: 4:46:56 pm That's almost correct. The only problem is, if you have a zone named a.com, then you can't have a CNAME record named a.com. Instead, you'd have a CNAME record named www.a.com. (You also can't have a load balance record named a.com.) So your CNAME records would look like this: www.a.com. CNAME www.test.com. www.b.com. CNAME www.test.com. www.c.com. CNAME www.test.com. www.d.com. CNAME www.test.com. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy! At 4:35 PM -0700 5/5/01, Tony wrote: >I'd like to see an example also: > >I have a dns record named 'test.com' >The load balance record name is 'www.test.com' > >I have 26 other domains named a.com through z.com > >Are you saying that the best way to balance all those domains is to >have a cname set to www.test.com in each record?? > >eg >a.com CNAME www.test.com >b.com CNAME www.test.com >c.com CNAME www.test.com >d.com CNAME www.test.com >etc > >That way will save me a lot of time. > >Thanks, > >Tony > >> >on 4/29/01 6:10 PM, Men & Mice Support at cbuxton@menandmice.com wrote: >> >>>>> In general, the load balance system isn't designed for more than a >>>>> handful of load balance records. If you have a number of names you >>>>> want load balanced the same way, it's preferable to use only one load >>>>> balance record, with CNAME records for the rest. >>>> OK - I've had one cup of coffee, but it's Saturday and this is not sinking >>>> in ... If I have a dozen or so separate DNS's for web sites that all are >>>> independent sites (hosted on WebTen as virtual hosts) - I understand that >>>> you really only need to monitor the web server once. But how do I use >>>> CNAMES in the other domains to cause the switch? >> > >>> It's just like any other CNAME alias: >>> >> > virtual.host.name. CNAME load.balance.record.name. >> >>It's Saturday a week later and I'm still struggling ... let's try an >>example: >> >>www.mldfamily.org is load balanced (99 to one server, and 1 to another >>server) -- soon to be 65535 and 1. >> >>www.ldbailey.com is hosted on the same two servers. What is the entry for >>the "load.balance.record.name" for www.ldbailey.com? Is it >>www.mldfamily.org? Does that cause the IP to be looked up but the query at >>that IP is actually made by the browser to www.ldbailey.com? >> >>Dean

Messages In This Thread: Re: Load Balance to set a primary and "backup" server. by Dean Suhr on May 5, 2001 at 4:17:56 pm Re: Load Balance to set a primary and "backup" server. by Tony on May 5, 2001 at 4:36:08 pm Re: Load Balance to set a primary and "backup" server. by Men & Mice Support on May 5, 2001 at 4:43:40 pm Re: Load Balance to set a primary and "backup" server. by Men & Mice Support on May 5, 2001 at 4:46:56 pm Re: Load Balance to set a primary and "backup" server. by Tony on May 17, 2001 at 8:30:23 am Re: Load Balance to set a primary and "backup" server. by Men & Mice Support on May 17, 2001 at 5:36:46 pm Re: Load Balance to set a primary and "backup" server. by Tony on May 19, 2001 at 12:57:21 pm Re: Load Balance to set a primary and "backup" server. by Men & Mice Support on May 20, 2001 at 12:04:20 am Re: Load Balance to set a primary and "backup" server. by Helen & Tony Baczynski on May 20, 2001 at 1:03:58 am Re: Load Balance to set a primary and "backup" server. by Men & Mice Support on May 20, 2001 at 3:20:59 am Re: Load Balance to set a primary and "backup" server. by Tony on May 20, 2001 at 11:12:30 am Re: Load Balance to set a primary and "backup" server. by Tony on May 20, 2001 at 4:28:37 pm