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Re: Load balancing

From: Suzanne Swift
Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2001
Time: 12:31:31 pm

That's exactly what happened. So what should I do now? Do I delete out
all the work I did and start over?

>At 8:39 PM -0400 5/8/01, Suzanne Swift wrote:
>>I'm implementing load balancing and have run into what may be a problem.
>>
>>When I open a zone and double click on the load balance record, I get the
>>following message:
>>
>>"You are not connected to one or more slave servers for the load balance
>>record. Changes made in this window will not be saved to those servers."
>>
>>In the slave server window is the follwing:
>>
>>my slave server ip (NOT CHECKED OFF)
>>primaryip.domainname.com
>>secondaryip.domainname.com
>>
>>(THE BOTTOM TWO ARE CHECKED OFF, BUT ARE GREYED OUT)
>>
>>Is this right? If not, how do I get rid of the bottom two?
>
>No, this is not right. This indicates that, at some point when you
>created or modified the load balance record, you were connected to
>your server by IP address. Never do this when creating or modifying
>load balance records; always connect to your servers by name.
>
>When I say "connected by ...", I mean in the connection dialog in
>Manager. When you connect to your server, you are asked for your
>server's name or IP address, as well as your password. (This may be
>handled automatically, if you have auto-connect to servers selected
>in the preferences.)
>
>Ideally, you never connect by IP address. There are a few cases,
>generally early on in the setup process, when this is your only
>choice, because there is no hostname that Manager can resolve that
>points to the server. However, this should be done as little as
>possible.
>____________________________________________________________________
>Chris Buxton Men & Mice
>cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!






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