[29706] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dmitri Krioukov)
Thu Jul 6 11:11:16 2000
From: "Dmitri Krioukov" <dima@dimension.net>
To: "Brantley Jones" <bjones@redundant.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>, "Mike Diehn" <mdiehn@vicinity.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 11:19:16 -0400
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radware also had that rather original
triangle data flow mechanism i
mentioned. frankly speaking, i don't
know what happened to it. in its
intact form, it doesn't work anyway.
--
dima.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Brantley Jones
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 10:45 AM
> To: Mike Diehn
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron
>
>
>
> At 10:19 AM 7/6/2000 -0400, Mike Diehn wrote:
> >* Brantley Jones (bjones@redundant.net) [07 05, 2000 22:30]:
> > >
> > > At 09:28 PM 7/5/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> > >
> > > >they also have the dns based solution available on
> > > >serverirons. -- dima.
> > >
> > > Speaking of using a DNS proxy, does anybody know of anybody
> > > else doing this besides Foundry??
> >
> >Radware's WSD (Web Server Director) plays DNS server for clients
> >wanting to resolve a hostname to the IP of a close (from a network
> >latency perspective) server farm.
> >
> >It isn't a DNS proxy, though. It's acting as the authoritative
> >DNS server for specific hostnames delegated to it by the servers
> >authoritative for the parent zone.
> >
> >Resonate does that, too. And so does Cisco's global Director (I
> >think).
> >
> >Is that what you were after?
> >
> >Mike
>
> Kind of. What we're trying to do here is provide a back-up only approach
> for Internet service via NAT and VRRP/HSRP at the customer premise. The
> problem is with people hosting applications on-site that require DNS
> (www,MX,etc.). Trying to avoid using BGP as a back-up mechanism in this
> case (for obvious reasons), if I could find a product that could act as a
> authoritative DNS with a TTL of 0 or something, and only send replies for
> applications when the primary IP was down or unreachable, and then
> statically NAT our address over to the primary address at the customer
> premise, I think we could have a pretty good solution for
> providing back-up
> Internet service, including web, mail, etc. applications. I will
> definitely take a look at all the listed products and would appreciate
> anyone's input on this matter.
>
> Thanks!
> Brantley
>
>
>
