[91097] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS Based Load Balancers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sun Jul 2 14:03:04 2006
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 02 Jul 2006 18:02:35 +0000
In-Reply-To: <F954425D51016944BA33ECE28561C345025C7D39@CBA0E2K06.CBA0.centerbeam.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
dave@rightmedia.com ("David Temkin") writes:
> 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?
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg245858.pdf
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/iaabu/distrdir/dd2501/ovr.htm
http://www.radware.com/content/products/library/faq_wsd.pdf
http://www.foundrynet.com/solutions/appNotes/GSLB.html
http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/ifiadmin/staff/rofrei/DA/DA_Arbeiten_2000/Masutti_Oliver.pdf
note that several of these describe or offer a dns-based solution as an option,
but they all describe session-level redirection and most recommend that (as i
do) and some even say "using dns for this is bad" (as i do, but for different
reasons.)
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Paul Vixie
