Search Again: Re: MacOSX Load Balancing From: Men & Mice Support Date: Sunday, November 11, 2001 Time: 2:50:38 am At 3:02 AM -0800 11/10/01, Noah Patton wrote: >Any plans for a MacOSX version of QuickDNS Load Balancer? No, not at the moment. It would require substantial changes to the BIND codebase - we could certainly do it, but it would be a lot of work thereafter to keep up with BIND updates. >Any suggestions for how to do load balancing with BIND on MacOSX? As Len pointed out, there is round-robin record set permutation, which gives no fault tolerance and only permits symmetric load distribution. Also, there is something out there called "lbnamed". I don't know exactly what it is or how it works, but I have heard that: - lbnamed is based on Perl. - lbnamed has a feature set somewhat similar to QuickDNS' load balancing records. Again, I have absolutely no experience with this thing. You might be able to find useful information about it here: <http://www.stanford.edu/~riepel/lbnamed/> You might also want to read this: <http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/docs/bind-load-bal.html> ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy

Messages In This Thread: MacOSX Load Balancing by Noah Patton on Nov 10, 2001 at 3:03:40 am Re: MacOSX Load Balancing by Len Conrad on Nov 10, 2001 at 3:12:48 am Re: MacOSX Load Balancing by Men & Mice Support on Nov 11, 2001 at 2:50:38 am MacOSX Load Balancing by Noah Patton on Nov 11, 2001 at 11:28:22 am