[91108] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS Based Load Balancers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Mon Jul 3 11:56:17 2006
In-Reply-To: <g3ejx3fhxl.fsf@sa.vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 11:55:46 -0400
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jul 3, 2006, at 12:09 AM, Paul Vixie wrote:
>
> well, i see that fezhead is dead. but 3-party TCP is alive and well:
> <http://www.cs.bu.edu/~best/res/projects/DPRClusterLoadBalancing/>.
>
> see also <http://www.tenereillo.com/GSLBPageOfShame.htm>
> and <http://www.tenereillo.com/GSLBPageOfShameII.htm>.
>
Paul - I'm still eagerly waiting your reply to Patrick's questions.
Here at least we finally have something to read other than relying on
blind faith, but
the author is so convinced DNS based GSLB doesn't work[1] (and gives
good examples
of why it doesn't). However, these are all pretty much theoretical
examples, and there's
no explanation of why DNS based CDNs do in fact work so well in
practice[2].
[1] FSVO "doesn't work" that is...
[2] I was going to say "appear to work so well", but that's unfair
use of sarcasm - I know just how well at least one CDN works :)
