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Re: Load Balancing

From: Fabio Cristian Sestilli
Date: Monday, November 18, 2002
Time: 9:21:25 am

on 17-11-2002 00:24, Bob Minor at bob@bigcircle.com wrote:

> I have been running QDNS/OS9 systems and have been doing load balancing
> in busy times. We run the services for the St. Louis Rams. I want to
> move up to OSX but still need the load balancing features what is
> everyone using?
>
> Robert Minor
>
>
I forward you a mail by Chris Buxton. I asked him the same.

Hello Fabio,

You might be able to use lbnamed for this. It's a Perl-based
specialized name server.
<http://www.stanford.edu/~schemers/docs/lbnamed/lbnamed.html>

Otherwise, you're most likely going to need to look at a hardware solution.
____________________________________________________________________
Chris Buxton Men & Mice
support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy

At 9:42 AM +0100 11/15/02, Fabio Cristian Sestilli wrote:
>on 14-11-2002 23:21, Men & Mice Support at support@menandmice.com wrote:
>
>> At 2:25 PM +0100 11/14/02, Fabio Cristian Sestilli wrote:
>>> OK. One more question is it possible load balincing with QDNS 4.0 like with
>>> 3.5.3 on Mac OS 9.x ? I don't find any info in the doc about that.
>>
>> Hello Fabio,
>>
>> No, I'm afraid not. The load balancing feature only works with
>> QuickDNS Server for classic Mac OS.
>>
>> On other operating systems, QuickDNS manages either the BIND name
>> server or Microsoft DNS, neither of which supports this type of load
>> balancing.
>> ____________________________________________________________________
>> Chris Buxton Men & Mice
>> support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy
>
>Could you suggest any third parties software to support load balance feature
>on X ?, the BIND round robin it's not so complete like the DNS load
>balancer.
>
>Thanks Fabio

Have a good one Fabio




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