Search Again: Re: Load Balance to set a primary and "backup" server. From: Men & Mice Support Date: Sunday, May 20, 2001 Time: 12:04:20 am There's nothing against the rules there. The wildcard CNAME and the regular CNAME will not conflict. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy! At 12:56 PM -0700 5/19/01, Tony wrote: >OK, I've almost got it > >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

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