Hi, I am looking at the hostdb configuration and I need some clarification on the configuration. In particular I have questions about these two configuration parameters.
proxy.config.hostdb.host_file.path proxy.config.hostdb.strict_round_robin I am trying to understand how hostdb round_robin configuration works. In my setup, I am trying to reach multiple origin servers. I am using the same domain name for all my origin servers. In my remap, I am using this name. Since each of my origin servers has a different IP, I was hoping to use the strict_round_robing configuration to distribute the load amongst the origin servers. The documentation for the first says that the format for host_file.path is similar to 'hosts' file. However as per the answers for this query... https://serverfault.com/questions/429839/assign-multiple-ips-to-1-entry-in-hosts-file The hosts file doesn't support having multiple IPs for the same domain. Does ATS hostdb behave differently i.e. similar to a DNS server. I am asking this, because ATS has the hostdb round robin configuration. BTW, this configuration works with an DNS server with strict round robing enabled for my origin server domain. I am trying to get the same thing working with hostdb since I want to avoid DNS round trip because my IPs are fairly fixed. Thanks for the help. Dk.
