[29683] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: bad idea?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tony bourke)
Wed Jul 5 14:16:11 2000
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 14:11:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: tony bourke <tony@vegan.net>
To: Jeremiah Kristal <jkristal@on2.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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actually, Foundry has a global solution based on BGP, check them out.
There is a load-balancing mailing list, which addresses such issues.
http://vegan.net/lb is the info to sign up.
Tony
On
Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Jeremiah Kristal wrote:
>
> Given a small, globally routable netblock to be used for front-end web
> servers, and a strong aversion for using DNS for any type of load
> balancing, would it be reasonable to build two identical servers farms
> with the same public IP addresses and rely on the BGP sessions with the
> hosing providers to remove one advertisement in the event of a problem?
> I've been looking at ways to ensure that the webservers are always
> available, short of building a network connecting hosting facilities.
>
> Jeremiah
> being a customer stinks
>
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