Search Again: Re: Load Balancing - how to From: Matthias Gruber Date: Thursday, August 22, 2002 Time: 2:09:02 am hello, its in the html manual under working with servers/quick dns server/quick dns server/ >> 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. it is a number ranging from 1 to 65535. 50 to 50 (or any equal numbers) gets you a 50 percent load balancing 65535 to 1 is quite near to failover there is an macos 9 application to test this (LB Tester) >> >> In this case, what happens if the primary host is down (which is actually >> the reason we are trying this)? the obvious: one of N accesses goes to the server which is down. works quite good as failover system (and is the reason i will stay with the macos 9 version) >> >> 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. that should work. but it is no clustering, wich means all of the clients open tcp sessions will break in case of switching. (you may query www.wolnet.de, it is load balanced with 65535 to 1) regards, matthias

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