Search Again: Re: Load Balance to set a primary and "backup" server. From: Helen & Tony Baczynski Date: Sunday, May 20, 2001 Time: 1:03:58 am What does 'Non LB replies' under IP Address mean in the LB Tester? >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