Search Again: Re: Load Balance to set a primary and "backup" server. From: Men & Mice Support Date: Thursday, May 17, 2001 Time: 5:36:46 pm Absolutely. Do this for any name that you want to have load-balanced, as long as the name can legally be defined as an alias. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy! At 8:29 AM -0700 5/17/01, Tony wrote: >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