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OK, I've almost got it
Re: Load Balance to set a primary and "backup" server.
From: Tony
Date: Saturday, May 19, 2001
Time: 12:57:21 pm
But.....
In a.com record...
a.com A ip#
*.a.com cname a.com
www.a.com cname www.test.com
Will this work, or will the wildcard and www conflict somehow?
>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
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