Geographical load balance

Michele Chubirka chubirka at gwu.edu
Wed Oct 26 00:44:57 UTC 2005


Actually, some load-balancers will utilize DNS with route health injection 
as well. Check out:
http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=21679

It's the load-balancing appliance used by Google and AOL.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad Knowles" <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org>
To: "Scott" <woulduno at gmail.com>
Cc: <comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 8:00 PM
Subject: Re: Geographical load balance


> At 2:09 PM -0500 2005-10-25, Scott wrote:
>
>>  I am trying to find out if Bind can be used to send a user to a closer
>>  server based on location. For instance a UK user would go to our server 
>> in
>>  the UK and a US user would hit the US server. Is this possible with Bind
>>  and if not is anyone aware of options for this without a large 
>> investment.
>
> BIND is not designed to do this sort of thing.  If you want this,
> you're going to need to buy one of those expensive devices sold by
> vendors like Cisco, for tens of thousands of dollars.
>
> On the subject of GSLB in general, see
> <http://www.tenereillo.com/GSLBPageOfShame.htm>.
>
> -- 
> Brad Knowles, <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org>
>
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> temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
>
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>     Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755
>
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>
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