On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Paul Graydon <p...@paulgraydon.co.uk> wrote: > On 09/07/2010 09:24 AM, Atom Powers wrote: > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Matthew Barr <mb...@mbarr.net> wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Brodie, Kent wrote: > We actually put DHCP, DNS, and LDAP on single boxes, and considered those > our primary boot first boxes. Almost nothing would work w/o those > services. Each of them has some reasonable highly available option, and > made life easy. > > How do you make DNS highly available (or load balance it)? > > There are a few fancy tricks for doing load-balanced DNS stuff, things that > should reduce time-out occurrences . The main one that springs to mind is > using Anycast, and route advertising through Zebra. > > http://ftp.isc.org/isc/pubs/tn/isc-tn-2004-1.htm
Using OSPF for load balancing ... that's just crazy enough to be brilliant. (Unfortunately I'm trying to avoid adding any more crazy into the network, so I don't think this approach will work for me.) -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers-- _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
