Search Again: Re: Load balance not working... From: Men & Mice Support Date: Saturday, October 6, 2001 Time: 1:10:27 am If you enter "lbr.starionhost.net" into a web browser, you have a 50% chance of hitting the "backup" web server. Right now, no other hostname is being affected by load balancing. Note that QuickDNS Load Balancer's "interval" checks don't show up in the log because Load Balancer doesn't send an HTTP request. It just establishes a connection at the TCP level, without sending any data over that connection. If you want to load balance, for example, www.starionhost.net, you'll need perform the following two steps: - Remove the A record named www.starionhost.net. It currently looks like: www.starionhost.net. A 209.248.156.138 - Create a CNAME record named www.starionhost.net that looks like this: www.starionhost.net. CNAME lbr.starionhost.net. (You can copy that line and paste it into the zone to create the record.) ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy At 11:37 AM -0500 10/5/01, <listaccount@starionline.com> wrote: >Okay, the issue with the LB tester is resolved. I am now getting correct >readings from it. However, with a 50/50 setting, I should be seeing a log >entry on the backup server every other refresh or so? > >In other words, the LB tester is showing distribution, but in reality, >requests are still only hitting the primary web server. I have had the >backup server up all week with this LB configuration, and it hasn't taken >any hits at all. > >So, bottom line is, load balancing is still not working. > >Jeff J. >Starion Systems > > >>> Yes, well, the LB Tester utility doesn't connect to the web servers. > >>> It connects to QuickDNS. > >>> > >>> Is it still showing a "non-LB response"? Or does it have a different > >>> error message? Or what? > >> > >> It's not returning any kind of error. It's just showing a 100% >count to one > >> IP, main web server machine. From any machine. Inside or outside the > >> network. > > > > That's very odd, given the results I got from it. > > > > Exactly what are you entering into the utility? For the name, you > > should be entering lbr.starionhost.net; for the server, either > > ns1.starionhost.net or ns2.starionhost.net. > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > Chris Buxton Men & Mice > > cbuxton@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy > >

Messages In This Thread: Re: Load balance not working... by listaccount@starionline.com on Oct 1, 2001 at 11:45:34 am Re: Load balance not working... by Men & Mice Support on Oct 1, 2001 at 12:20:12 pm Re: Load balance not working... by listaccount@starionline.com on Oct 1, 2001 at 3:22:18 pm Re: Load balance not working... by Men & Mice Support on Oct 1, 2001 at 11:23:40 pm Re: Load balance not working... by listaccount@starionline.com on Oct 5, 2001 at 9:38:14 am Re: Load balance not working... by Men & Mice Support on Oct 6, 2001 at 1:10:27 am Re: Load balance not working... by listaccount@starionline.com on Oct 6, 2001 at 9:15:12 am Re: Load balance not working... by Men & Mice Support on Oct 7, 2001 at 8:07:47 pm Re: Load balance not working... by listaccount@starionline.com on Oct 7, 2001 at 8:19:27 pm Re: Load balance not working... by Men & Mice Support on Oct 7, 2001 at 8:24:27 pm