Search Again: Re: Load Balance to set a primary and "backup" server. From: Tony Date: Thursday, May 17, 2001 Time: 8:30:23 am Would I do the same for virtual hosts? www.a.com. CNAME www.test.com. xxx.a.com. CNAME www.test.com. yyy.a.com. CNAME www.test.com. zzz.a.com. CNAME www.test.com. >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