[103055] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: load balancing and fault tolerance without load balancer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry J. Blunk)
Fri Mar 14 12:57:59 2008
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:49:10 -0400
From: "Larry J. Blunk" <ljb@merit.edu>
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
You might want to consider client side load balancing --
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/client_side_load_balancing/
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
>
>
>
