[135257] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Tue Jan 18 21:41:38 2011
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:41:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Charles N Wyble <charles@knownelement.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D3632C1.2010800@knownelement.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Charles N Wyble wrote:
> He asked about DNS based loadbalancing (also
>> known as GSLB, among other things) software packages....
>
> Ah. DNS based load balancing. I've heard good things about powerdns for
> that.
I assume the "good things" is that with powerdns and the gmysql backend,
it's trivial to have a script do some SQL updates as often as you need to
change the content and change_date of the records you're using for the DNS
based load balancing.
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