[71161] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NLB Recommendations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Thu Jun 10 09:40:24 2004
In-Reply-To: <248E12FC-B9A4-11D8-885F-000D93C280F2@antinode.net>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 09:39:45 -0400
To: James Baldwin <jbaldwin@antinode.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 8 Jun 2004, at 19:32, James Baldwin wrote:
> I'm looking for recommendations for network load balancers. These, at
> this time, will primarily be used to attach to a cluster of webservers
> although I would like a solution which can be repurposed to other
> applications later. I am looking at F5's Big IP, Cisco's SLB, and
> Foundry's ServerIron at this time.
Depending on the nature of your content and how you want your load
distributed, the approach we take with distributing DNS load (udp and
tcp) across a cluster of nameservers may be of interest:
http://www.isc.org/pubs/tn/isc-tn-2004-1.html
http://www.isc.org/pubs/tn/isc-tn-2004-1.txt
No bells and whistles here, but also no need to buy load-balancing
appliances. Be sure to read section 6 ("Limitations").
Joe
