Search Again: Re: load balancing on os 9 From: Guy Jones Date: Monday, June 9, 2003 Time: 3:06:47 pm Thanks for the info- I thought it was like a mail record. The last question, what is the Interval and hostlife fields and what value should they have? at 9:27 PM +0200 on 6/9/03, Men & Mice Support wrote: >At 1:06 PM +0200 6/9/03, Guy Jones wrote: >>I want to have an off site backup server which is on a lower speed >>connection. When using load balancing, if I set it to a higher >>value than the other servers, which will all have the same value, >>can I set it so high that it will only be addressed if the other >>servers are unaccessible? > >You have the values wrong. Lower values get less traffic. > >>Does it matter what the value it as long as it is higher than the >>other servers or is there an intelligence in the value? > >It's a simple ratio, providing for asymmetric load balancing. For >example, suppose you have three servers at your main site + one >offsite backup on a slow link. You would set them up like this: > >server 1 1000 >server 2 1000 >server 3 1000 >server 4 1 > >In this case, the offsite backup would get something like 1/3001 of >the traffic, while the other three split the other 3000/3001 evenly. > >A value of 0 will be treated as if the server were unavailable, so >good values are between 1 and about 65000. >____________________________________________________________________ >Chris Buxton Men & Mice >support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy -- Regards, Guy Jones _____________________________________________ The Nova Group http://www.novaint.com mailto:guy.jones@novaint.com

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