Chris,
Let's say you have 2 webservers:
www is 1.2.3.4
www1 is 1.2.3.5
Well when your DNS server receives a www request it goes to the first one
www or 1.2.3.4 then next request your DNS gets points to 1.2.3.5 or www2. As
you can see if you have a lot of traffice like Yahoo.com this will balance
the laod because not all the traffic is hitting one server. The bad part of
this is that your DNS server will not know if 1.2.3.4 is actually
onlin/active or working. In essence every other request will work if that
server goes down so 2 out of 4 people will get "Page can't be displayed".
Now you can do this with your proxy server also. You physically need to
separate servers and DNS to accomplish what your looking for. But it's all
done in DNS. To answer your question yes. I have 4 proxies that round robin
with squid and squidguard but that is 4 different servers I have to
maintain.
Thanks,
Bill
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 10:33 AM
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Subject: Load Balancing SquidGurad Servers
Does anyone know how to setup 2 SquidGuard Servers to perform in a load
balancing/failover situation. I would to have my users user proxy address
1.2.3.4 and if that one dies the 1.2.3.5 would take over... Is that
posibble at all?
Chris
