On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Dimitri Maziuk <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/20/2012 7:32 PM, Andrew Beekhof wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Dimitri Maziuk <[email protected]> >> wrote: > >>> You are not allowed to run the IP address on two servers at once, full >>> stop. Complain to Rob Kahn and Vint Cerf. >> >> Thats not strictly true. > > In the same way it's not strictly true that every phone must have a > unique number: if you don't mind other people getting your important > calls then by all means. > > CLUSTERIP which you presumably mean by "fun with iptables" is basically > "Jack gets all calls from even area codes and Jill: from odd area > codes".
This is a completely broken analogy. But since you've already decided the whole concept is stupid I'll not waste time correcting it. > Yeah, you cold do that, I just can't imagine why. > > Because the commonly given rationale for all this is load balancing and > -- well, duh -- there are load balancers for that. They don't require > same ip address on multiple hosts either. > > Dima > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-HA mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha > See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
