[91094] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS Based Load Balancers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Ghali)
Sat Jul 1 22:43:05 2006
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 19:42:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matt Ghali <matt@snark.net>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <g3veqhp368.fsf@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, 1 Jul 2006, Paul Vixie wrote:
>> I'm soliciting recommendations for DNS based load balancers.
>
> my recommendation is: "don't do it." for background, see:
>
> http://www.ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/namedroppers.2002/msg02168.html
> http://www.cctec.com/maillists/nanog/current/msg03572.html
> http://www.cctec.com/maillists/nanog/current/msg00671.html
> --
> Paul Vixie
Having implemented F5's 3DNS product for a large entertainment
company, I'd like to wholeheartedly agree with Paul.
Please, for the love of god, don't do it.
matto
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