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RE: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karyn Ulriksen)
Thu Jul 6 12:04:49 2000

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From: Karyn Ulriksen <kulriksen@publichost.com>
To: 'Richard Colella' <colella@aol.net>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 08:59:57 -0700 
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> 
> I believe BigIP has a product called DNS3 that serves a similar function.
> One of our ".com's" uses it to support their dual co-lo set-up.
> 

Two of F5's (www.f5.com) products are DNS3 and their BigIP series.  BigIP is
a software based load balancing device (i386 platform) and DNS3 is their
global load balancing DNS mechanism. 


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Colella [mailto:colella@aol.net]
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 5:38 AM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: RE: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron



Products are also available from Alteon, Cisco (Distributed
Director) and Resonate.  Last time I looked, none of these
products does everything one wants, IMHO, but the set union
of features comes pretty close.

--Richard


> 
> I believe BigIP has a product called DNS3 that serves a similar function.
> One of our ".com's" uses it to support their dual co-lo set-up.
> 
> -TY
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brantley Jones [mailto:bjones@redundant.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 10:06 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: RE: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron
> 
> 
> 
> 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??
> 
> Brantley
> 
> 



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