Search Again: Load Balancing - how to From: Tim Robinson Date: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 Time: 5:46:40 pm Hi there, We're running QuickDNS 3.5.3. It has many great features, but I can't believe there is nothing in the manual about Load Balancing (a quick mention of Round Robin Load Balancing, and even THAT was hard to find). Even after spending the best part of an hour and a half scouring through the talk list archives, I still only have half an idea of what to do... Isn't that a bit strange that there's a feature which can be accessed under 'insert a record' but there's no explanation at all of what it is or how to use it?!?!? Now to the question: This is what I've tried. In the load balance window, I've entered the name of a host I want to balance, I've entered TTL 300, Interval 30, Hostlife 60. Under host address and preference, I've assumed that I put IP address and a number. Is the preference number a percentage, or just a number. If i put the 'primary' as 1000, and the other as '1', does this mean it will be accessed 1 out of every 1001 tries. In this case, what happens if the primary host is down (which is actually the reason we are trying this)? To explain further, our 'main' webserver hosts a number of sites which have complicated database interactions. If this server is down for a bit of maintenance, we would like all queries to be directed to backup webserver which could just say 'server down for maintenance yada yada'. And then when the primary is up again, all queries to go back to that. All assistance would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Tim -- Tim Robinson IDFK Web Developments tim@idfk.com.au 114a/40 Yeo Street Neutral Bay 2089 Australia Phone +612 9908 2134 Fax +612 9908 4837

Messages In This Thread: Load Balancing - how to by Tim Robinson on Aug 21, 2002 at 5:46:40 pm Re: Load Balancing - how to by Jeff Logan on Aug 21, 2002 at 5:50:22 pm Re: Load Balancing - how to by Matthias Gruber on Aug 22, 2002 at 2:09:02 am Re: Load Balancing - how to by David Hooper on Aug 22, 2002 at 12:11:36 pm Re: Load Balancing - how to by Men & Mice Support on Aug 23, 2002 at 2:40:50 pm