[91095] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: DNS Based Load Balancers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Temkin)
Sun Jul 2 03:23:54 2006
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 00:23:05 -0700
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607011940590.4499@pants.snark.net>
From: "David Temkin" <dave@rightmedia.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
So, you guys have been pretty clear on what he shouldn't do.
What should he do as an alternative to using DNS for a proximity based
solution?
-Dave=20
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Matt Ghali
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 10:43 PM
To: Paul Vixie
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: DNS Based Load Balancers
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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