[135256] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Graydon)
Tue Jan 18 21:25:35 2011
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:25:28 -1000
From: Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 01/18/2011 07:42 AM, Sergey Voropaev wrote:
> Does any one know software sollutions (free is preferable) like as cisco GSS
> and F5 BIG-IP? The main point is that DNS-server (or dns server plugin) must
> be able to monitor server availability (for example by TCP connect) and from
> DNS-reply depends on it.
>
> I know that it is possible by BIND with set of script. But we are trying to
> find more usable solution with frendly interface.
>
> Thanks a lot.
If you want to get fancy you could try an Anycast DNS setup, using GNU's
Zebra tool to automatically alter routing tables.
http://www.netlinxinc.com/netlinx-blog/45-dns/118-introduction-to-anycast-dns.html
Paul
