On 20.12.11 19:37, Martin T wrote:
I have seen setups where one domain name has two address records.
First IP address is in the ISP-A network and the other one is in the
ISP-B network. In case I execute "host www.<domainname>.com", I always
get two IP addresses as a reply and they always appear by turns. Am I
correct, that setup like this provides redundancy as well as
load-balancing?
Kind of. It's much better to have real load-balancing and vailover by
multiple links or L3 load balancers.
Is there some common method in BIND to give out IP
addresses by turns? Last but not least, how do application layer(for
example www, ssh) handle such setup?
bind usually gives all possible addresses for a name in random order.
You can affect this a bit by using "sortlist" statement, where you can
tell BIND which address to prefer for which client (and, intermediate
server may re-sort according to its knowledge)
When one of those ip fails, you can expect half of your connections to
such host fail, and it's up to the client how to handle this situation.
Long time ago when we were trying to have multiple web servers for
redundancy and balancing, we have found that multiple IP's is not a
good solution (parts of web pages didn't load). We selected L3
switches then...
Different situation is when you have multiple providers and want to use
multiple uplinks with different IPs for the same servers. While this
can work with some NAT playing, it should be better to ger your
provider-independent address space (if possible) and use separate
uplinks. That gives you much better line saturation.
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