The protocol is CoAP with DTLS and IPSEC so not the same as DNS.

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On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 3:51 AM Forrest Christian (List Account) <
li...@packetflux.com> wrote:

> Just saw this, not sure if this still helps:
>
> As John Osmon said, many UDP services don't need state - for instance DNS
> servers.   Those you can set up as an anycast server where all the servers
> get the same IP address on a loopback interface, and then you enter
> multiple routes into the upstream routers to point at the servers.  This is
> often done by running a small BGP or OSPF daemon on each server which
> announces the IP addresses for the service it is handling and which is set
> up to withdraw the routes if the server is broken.
>
> For other services which need more sophisticated load balancing other than
> "shove this packet to one of a set of machines, and it doesn't matter if
> the next packet goes to the same machine or not", then you need to find a
> reverse proxy or similar for your particular server.
>
> What protocol are you needing to load balance?  That will help as far as
> knowing what type of hints to provide.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 10:42 AM Paul Dowling <p...@believebroadband.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Anyone know any good, affordable load balancers for UDP servers?
>>
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