load balancing problems in DNS

phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Tue Feb 18 22:01:35 UTC 2003


Bruce Embrey <embrey at hermes.hood.edu> wrote:

> I am running bind 9.2.1-9 under RedHat 8.0 and have
> recently setup a slave DNS with 4 nic cards. I have 2
> subnets which I have 2 cards in each and the dns entry for
> this box is in round robin fashion. I have encountered a
> problem in that the arp table on my router is having the
> mac address from 1 nic on the subnet being overwritten by
> the other.

> Is it best just to reduce to 1 nic in each subnet 

Yes. One NIC per net . Connected to two networks = two NIC's

If one of them can't keep up, install a 10x faster.


or am I
> missing a configuration setup? I selected the round robin
> to provide DNS load balancing. Is there a better way of
> accomplishing this?

> Bruce

> Bruce Edward Embrey : VMS Systems Manager
> Campus Email Admin : UNIX / Linux Administrator
> Hood College : embrey at hood.edu : Phone (301)696-3927


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