Failover DNS
Hanasaki JiJi
hanasaki at hanaden.com
Thu Mar 20 23:01:59 CST 2003
Short version... Looks like multiple A will cause Bind to automatically
do round-robin DNS. Not adaptive/dynamic load balancing but a nice step
forward.
Some info links:
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http://asg.web.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc1794.html
http://www.isc.org/ml-archives/bind-users/1999/01/msg00069.html
http://www.process.com/techsupport/multinet/787/49.html
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/09/26/load.html
Patrick Miller wrote:
> I am not familiar with load balancing/backup via DNS. Now that it is hard to
> get multi-homed domains, I would think there would be plenty of scripts out
> there to do some load balancing, and redirecting if an Internet link goes
> down.
>
> Does anyone know a way to get bind to switch ip's it gives out? In the past
> I heard a lot about round robin and lowest load. I just don't know where to
> look to implement it. Let alone a way to get it to redirect when a link goes
> down.
>
>
>
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