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Re: Load Balancing

From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Friday, February 1, 2002
Time: 12:19:35 am

At 9:12 PM -0600 1/31/02, rob wrote:
> On 1/29/02 8:44 PM, "Men & Mice Support" <cbuxton@menandmice.com> wrote:
>
> > Give it a TTL of 5 minutes (300 seconds). Fill in the minimum values
> > for the other time-based fields. For each server, enter it's IP
> > address and the percentage of traffic you want to give it - 50, 35,
> > and 15, or whatever you settle on. The numbers don't have to add up
> > to 100, but having them do so makes it easiest to figure out how much
> > traffic will go where. When you're done and have saved the zone,
> > launch QuickDNS Load Balancer on each QuickDNS Server machine.
>
> If I give a ttl of 5 minutes isn't it possible that if I was on Server A 5
> minutes ago and I had no activity, that I could be on Server B on my next
> access? I ask this because I store data on the relative server and while it
> isn't too timely I would want you to stay on the same server for about a
> half an hour. Even if you took a 10 minute stretch.

No, that's not a problem. Browsers ignore TTL's.
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Chris Buxton Men & Mice
support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy



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