Hi All,
When your web browser connects to home.netscape.com, you actually
get home1.netscape.com or home2.netscape.com or home3...
We would also like to load balance our web server like this and
have one address that could connect a user to any of 5 different
machines (least heavily loaded one, or some cyclic order).
So I tried to find out how Netscape does it. -- They say its
hardwired into the browser. (home.netscape.com = homeN.netscape.com,
where N = random number between 1 and 16)
Anyone know of generic easy way to do this? I thought of two
solutions, but I dont think they will work:
1. Add 5 aliases called "www" to point to the 5 different machines.
e.g.
www IN CNAME home1.domain.org
www IN CNAME home2.domain.org
www IN CNAME home3.domain.org
www IN CNAME home4.domain.org
www IN CNAME home5.domain.org
I dont know if this will screw up DNS, or whether requests
will be serviced in a cyclic order?
2. Filter the packets on the router: (bad load-balancing)
e.g.
Src = *.com Dest = home1.domain.org
Src = *.gov Dest = home2.domain.org
Src = *.mil Dest = home3.domain.org
Src = *.com Dest = home4.domain.org
Src = *.* Dest = home5.domain.org
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Gregg
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Gregg Williams
Support Engineer
http://www.realtime.co.za/
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