Slaving from DNS masters behind LVS

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Wed Feb 13 15:34:21 UTC 2013


Nick Urbanik <nick.urbanik at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> I think that it is not necessarily always true that you should avoid a
> load balancer.  Every day, our DNS caches are answering about 140,000
> queries per second.  I think that it is rather hard to configure
> resolvers to query only three machines yet still meet the demand
> unless you either use very massive, expensive machines, or use load
> balancers.

Another option is to use anycast.
http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog29/abstracts.php?pt=NjcxJm5hbm9nMjk=

Tony.
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