Re: Apache clustering w/ load balancing and failover

2003-09-21 Thread Mario Lopez
Why not using 'roundrobin' ??? Install a couple of Web-Servers, give each Server an IP and then setup for each Server a A-Record on your DNS-Server pointing to the same hostname. The problem with round robin is that when one server fails over it keeps sending them connections, I once saw a

RE: Apache clustering w/ load balancing and failover

2003-09-21 Thread Thomas Lamy
Mathieu Martin wrote: Mario Lopez wrote: Why not using 'roundrobin' ??? Install a couple of Web-Servers, give each Server an IP and then setup for each Server a A-Record on your DNS-Server pointing to the same hostname. The problem with round robin is that when one server

Re: Apache clustering w/ load balancing and failover

2003-09-21 Thread Mathieu Martin
Thomas Lamy wrote: Mathieu Martin wrote: Mario Lopez wrote: Why not using 'roundrobin' ??? Install a couple of Web-Servers, give each Server an IP and then setup for each Server a A-Record on your DNS-Server pointing to the same hostname. The problem with round robin is

RE: Apache clustering w/ load balancing and failover

2003-09-21 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 15:05, Thomas Lamy wrote: You're wrong. round robin dns isn't HA, isn't load balancing, it's just request spreading. You can't control how many (DNS-)clients cache one of the RR IP's, therefore you won't get even load on your RR'ed servers. Plus you _have_ to use a tool