Load balancing w/ failover.

Steve Lee maillist at blitzen.net
Mon Jul 1 21:25:00 UTC 2002


Lyris is Junk, from my exp. why even bother using it.
shaddy software.  

my 2 cents.




On 1 Jul 2002 phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu wrote:

> 
> Ben Timby <asp at webexc.com> wrote:
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> > Hello, I would like to know the easiest way to setup the following:
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> > 4 DNS servers running BIND 8
> 
> 4 intelboxes + FreeBSD from CDROM. 15 minutes / box. Bind-8 included
> in basic kit.
> 
> > 1 controller machine that distributes queries to the 4 DNS servers
> 
> One more intelbox + FreeBSD, this one with a 'forwarders { the four above };'
> 
> 
> Another
> > evenly.
> > Controller will skip any machine that is not responding.
> > None of the DNS server are authoritive.
> > I would also like a way of sharing cache, or sending like queries to
> > the same box since the domain record would already be in cache.
> 
> > I need this setup for my Lyris ListManager box, it is killing my
> > current DNS server. Lyris says not to just setup multiple DNS servers
> > as if one fails, it will actually slow down mail delivery more than
> > just using a single DNS server would. I would like a nice automatic
> > solution that always works, our lyris box cannot slow down :-). I
> > took a look at:
> 
> You still have a single point of failure in my suggestion. But since
> 'lyris' does not cope gracefully with a nameserver failure this might be
> your best solution.   ( not mentioning OSPF tricks which under carefully
> controlled environments give a transparent switchover )
> 
> > lbnamed
> > http://www.stanford.edu/~riepel/lbnamed/
> 
> > And it seems to lack good docs (maybe I have not dug into it enough
> > yet).
> 
> > Does anyone have experience w/ it? Will it do what I want? Is there a
> > better/easier way?
> 
> Install a Good Working bind in a Good HW and use FreeBSD( or if you are so 
> inclined solaris on sparc).
> 
> > Thanks in advance.
> 
> > Ben Timby
> > Webexcellence
> > asp at webexc.com
> > www.webexc.com
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