Search Again: Re: load balancing on os 9 From: Men & Mice Support Date: Friday, June 6, 2003 Time: 10:02:43 am That provides round-robin load sharing, where each host receives an equal share of traffic, regardless of capabilities. It does not provide fault tolerance - web browsers aren't smart enough to figure that out. QuickDNS Load Balancing provides asymmetric load balancing and fault tolerance - if a web server goes down, QuickDNS pulls it out of the rotation. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy At 1:45 PM +0200 6/6/03, Guy Jones wrote: >If you put a series of a records with the same zone name but >different ip addresses how does this differ from load balancing? > > > >>Is this available in the osx version? >> >>at 9:47 AM +0200 on 6/6/03, Men & Mice Support wrote: >>>The zone name can't be load balanced, unfortunately. This is a >>>limitation of how load balancing is implemented - as a subzone, as >>>evidenced by the NS records you found in the slave version. >>>____________________________________________________________________ >>>Chris Buxton Men & Mice >>>support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy >>> >>>At 9:43 AM +0200 6/5/03, Guy Jones wrote: >>>>OK, I have gotten that to work. Now I want to have another zone >>>>work so that all the traffic to that zone is load balanced. >>>> >>>> so I have a zone called RBfiles.com >>>> >>>>I have NS records set up to our name servers. >>>> >>>>I do not want to have an a record I want only a load balance >>>>record. so that all http calls to RBfiles are sent to 5 different >>>>ip addresses. But the load balance record will not let me do >>>>this without putting in a name. How do I do this? >>>>-- >>>> >>>> >>>>Regards, >>>>Guy Jones >>>>_____________________________________________ >>>>The Nova Group >>>>http://www.novaint.com >>>>mailto:guy.jones@novaint.com >> >>-- >> >>Regards, >>Guy Jones >>_____________________________________________ >>The Nova Group >>http://www.novaint.com >>mailto:guy.jones@novaint.com >-- > > >Regards, >Guy Jones >_____________________________________________ >The Nova Group >http://www.novaint.com >mailto:guy.jones@novaint.com

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