[103054] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: load balancing and fault tolerance without load balancer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Nash)
Fri Mar 14 12:54:02 2008
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:48:31 -0700 (MST)
From: Bill Nash <billn@billn.net>
To: Joe Shen <joe_hznm@yahoo.com.sg>
cc: lb-l@vegan.net, NANGO <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <792896.9274.qm@web76307.mail.sg1.yahoo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
NANOG really isn't the forum for this kind of conversation.
That said, look into devices like Alteons, or open source solutions like
Balance-NG. Even Apache can be used for this with something like
mod_proxy. Good luck.
- billn
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Joe Shen wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> we plan to set up a web site with two web servers.
>
> The two servers should be under the same domain
> name. Normally, web surfing load should be
> distributed between the servers. when one server
> fails, the other server should take all of load
> automatically. When fault sever recovers, load
> balancing should be achived automatically.There is no
> buget for load balancer.
>
>
> we plan to use DNS to balance load between the two
> servers. But, it seems DNS based solution could not
> direct all load to one server automatically when the
> other is down.
>
>
> Is there any way to solve problem above?
>
> we use HP-UX with MC-Service Guard installed.
>
>
> thanks in advance.
>
> Joe
>
>
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