Search Again: Re: Load Balancing - how to From: David Hooper Date: Thursday, August 22, 2002 Time: 12:11:36 pm I would like to know how to do this too - for exactly the same reason as Tim. I did not quite follow what to do from Matthias (sorry!). David > From: Jeff Logan <jeff@insideout.com> > Reply-To: "QuickDNS Talk" <quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com> > Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 17:49:18 -0700 > To: "QuickDNS Talk" <quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com> > Subject: Re: Load Balancing - how to > > I have this same question as well. A good answer from Chris or > Sigfus will help. > > Thanks, > Jeff Logan > > >> 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------ > InsideOut Marketing and Web Solutions > Web, Marketing and Print Design > Toll Free: 1-800-500-8401 > Phone: 360.683.5774 Fax: 360.683.5857 > Email: mailto:jeff@insideout.com > 229 South Sequim Ave, Sequim, WA 98382 > http://www.insideout.com > ------------------------------------------------ >

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