anycast looks fine and cheaper for us. Thanks everyone, I appreciate your help.
regards, Sasa ________________________________ From: Dan Durrer <d...@vitalwerks.com> To: Matthew Pounsett <m...@conundrum.com> Cc: sasa sasa <sasasa20...@yahoo.com>; bind dns <bind-users@lists.isc.org> Sent: Mon, April 5, 2010 6:47:42 PM Subject: Re: Load Balancer for DNS Yes, we've been using the ip sla feature for some time now, works well. Bgp/ ospf via quagga also are great solutions . Dan Durrer No-ip.com Sent from my iPad On Apr 5, 2010, at 8:39 AM, Matthew Pounsett <m...@conundrum.com> wrote: > > On 2010/04/05, at 02:06, sasa sasa wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> Any one used any load balancer for DNSs? any recommendation? it's 2 >> caching-only DNSs, and I'd like to make a load balance between them using >> software. > > Unless you're willing to spend a lot of money, load balancers are generally > not the best way to go. They tend to be specced out for "average" internet > traffic, which has a much lower packets/megabit ratio than DNS traffic does. > You're much better off using routing protocols to balance traffic between DNS > servers. > > Have a look at this[1] how-to .. it'll point you to a technote by ISC about > how to do OSPF anycast within a LAN, as well as explain a slightly simpler > (but Cisco-only) solution. > > Cheers, > Matt > > [1] > <http://mpounsett.blogspot.com/2009/02/load-balancing-dns-using-ciscos-ip-sla.html> > > _______________________________________________ > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
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