[43354] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: dns based loadbalancing/failover
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter van Dijk)
Sat Oct 6 19:40:42 2001
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 01:40:07 +0200
From: Peter van Dijk <peter@dataloss.nl>
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In-Reply-To: <g3vghsbjw4.fsf@as.vix.com>; from vixie@vix.com on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 01:20:27PM -0700
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On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 01:20:27PM -0700, Paul Vixie wrote:
>
> > The really neat thing is that you can do this with any nameserver. Install
> > N nameservers and connect each of them to one of your ISPs. These
> > nameservers are all masters, and all contain different data.
>
> If you have several nameservers all pretending to be masters for some zone
> but offering different responses based on IP locality, predictive performance,
> or any other criteria, then the name for this is: "broken."
I suppose you don't do split-horizon DNS, then?
Greetz, Peter
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