What would the purpose of this load balancer be? If you want a free (but
not yet mature) product you might want to check out FEZhead. The e-mail I
got from Eric Boyd (one of the developers i think) at the Squid mailing list
follows:
> We've just released an open source global load balancer--FEZhead--that
works
> nicely alongside named. The purpose of this tool is to enable the creation
> of multi-sited web sites through mirroring, caching, or multi-homing. By
> combining it with Apache, Squid, and/or BIND, you could set up a private
> content delivery network (ala Akamai) using open source software.
>
> The idea behind FEZhead is that you'd continue to use named to for all
your
> normal name service, but let FEZhead handle DNS requests to your
multi-sited
> website. In addition, FEZhead double checks its DNS-based selection once
an
> HTTP query is made, using HTTP redirects if the requesting name server is
> not representative of the topological location of the browser.
>
> FEZhead takes into account performance factors (latency, packet loss,
cache
> load), ensures full round-trip connectivity (not one-connectivity), and
> factors in bandwidth usage (minimizing the additional hidden bandwidth
costs
> that can arise from multi-siting).
>
> You can download the source code or the binaries from
> http://www.fezhead.org/.
The name "FEZhead" must be one of the weirdest names since "Squid" but then
again it's the product's capability that counts doesn't it? :-)
M. Yu
_
Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph
To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
