Load-balancing

Brad Knowles brad.knowles at skynet.be
Mon Jun 4 18:23:10 UTC 2001


At 10:27 AM +0000 6/4/01, Kumar AN wrote:

>  I had a question about any kind of load-balancing available on BIND 9.x
>
>  Is it possible to load-balance using a hash or other algorithm if I had,
>  say, 2 BIND servers running on Solaris?

	BIND natively implements a load-distribution mechanism, based on 
the round-trip-time (RTT) of the responses it gets from the various 
servers for the various questions it is asking.  What more do you 
need?

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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