dns-clustering?

Paul Vixie vixie at sa.vix.com
Mon Sep 19 14:22:33 UTC 2005


Marten Lehmann <lehmann at cnm.de> writes:

> the amount of zones we are managing is increasing daily. Instead of 
> setting up dozends of discrete nameservers (ns5, ns6, ns7...), I would 
> like to have a load balanced nameserver cluster. In the end, I want to 
> promote only two nameservers (ns1 and ns2) to delegate a domain, but if 
> the load increases, I simply want to add an additional nameserver to the 
> cluster. Has anyone done this with bind?

yes.  that's how f-root works.  see joe abley's excellent writeup at:

	http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/pubs/tn/index.pl?tn=isc-tn-2004-1.txt

and perhaps also:

	http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/pubs/tn/index.pl?tn=isc-tn-2003-1.txt
-- 
Paul Vixie



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