Dennis Peterson said: > > A long time ago when I worked at a large aircraft company in Seattle I > helped > develop a DNS resource balancing methodology that evaluated system load of > each > server being managed to determine that server's position in the DNS > response. In > this case it looked to see which server had the most free licenses for a > product > that runs on each server with the intent that no server run out of > licenses as > would happen with a true random system. It is a fairly trivial thing to do > and > provides true balancing via DNS. DNS savvy people can quicky replicate > this > using wget's of a sample file from each mirror, checking the transfer time > (as > does BigIP), and using dynamic DNS updates with BIND tools. While this > probably > won't keep some geeks from creating workarounds it should at least provide > the > best use of bandwidth for the rest of us.
I should add that I'd hope this or something similar would be done on the provider end, not by everyone with too much scripting time available. Resource management shouldn't be a client side activity. dp ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 13. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
