Load balancing? problem...

Re: Load balancing? problem...

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Seems that restarting the server solved the problem. Don't know what
happened to make it start incorrectly directing. First tried to simply
re-launch the Load Balancer, but that didn't change anything.

Before restarting the machine, however, I did run the load balance tester.
On my primary server it worked correctly. On the secondary it was coming
back as non-load-balanced responses. Which brings up a
question/confirmation...

Did I read on this list somewhere that when DNS is queried, the server that
responds fastest will be the response that is used? For example, our
primary DNS is on a machine that is slower than the secondary. Which would
explain why the secondary sees a lot more "traffic"....is that theory right?

Jeff J.
Starion Systems, Inc.

> From: Men & Mice Support <cbuxton@menandmice.com>
> Reply-To: "QuickDNS Talk" <quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com>
> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 09:00:23 -0600
> To: "QuickDNS Talk" <quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com>
> Subject: Re: Load balancing? problem...
>
> I'm not seeing a problem. Have you fixed it?
>
> I queried both of your servers a few times. Universally, I was given
> this record when I asked for an A record:
>
> lbr.starionhost.net. A 209.248.156.138
>
> When I asked for the entire load balance record, of course, I also
> saw this record:
>
> lbr.starionhost.net. A 64.19.34.128
>
> Either this second server is (correctly) being given 1% of hits, or
> else it's down. I didn't send sufficient queries to see which it is.
> ____________________________________________________________________
> Chris Buxton Men & Mice
> support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy
>
> At 10:59 PM -0600 11/17/01, <listaccount@starionline.com> wrote:
>> Out of the blue tonight, I am getting directed from my primary to my backup
>> on an almost 50/50 basis. I have load balancing set up for the domain, but
>> on a 99/1 setting. I haven't touched this load balance record for over a
>> month. Any ideas why it's started doing this?
>>
>> Jeff J.
>> Starion Systems, Inc.
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