Re: Load Balancer for DNS

2010-04-05 Thread Warren Kumari
On Apr 5, 2010, at 2:06 AM, sasa sasa wrote: Hello everyone, Any one used any load balancer for DNSs? any recommendation? it's 2 caching-only DNSs, and I'd like to make a load balance between them using software. They all suck, some just seem to suck less than others -- the Foundry Ser

Re: Load Balancer for DNS

2010-04-05 Thread Alan Clegg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4/5/2010 2:06 AM, sasa sasa wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Any one used any load balancer for DNSs? any recommendation? it's 2 > caching-only DNSs, and I'd like to make a load balance between them > using software. I would recommend that before addi

RE: Load Balancer for DNS

2010-04-05 Thread Lightner, Jeff
That answer seems to imply that when load is high enough on existing caching servers the traffic will go to the others. Is that the case? At what point does this occur? -Original Message- From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=wate

RE: Load Balancer for DNS

2010-04-05 Thread Baird, Josh
Load balancing can also be used just to provide high availability for your caching/resolver servers. Often times, even though a resolver client will allow you to provide multiple resolving servers, if the primary resolver goes down the delay until the next resolver is tried often cripples applicat

RE: Load Balancer for DNS

2010-04-05 Thread Faehl, Chris
Load-balancers are used for redundancy as well as performance management. In the case of DNS, one way it might be used is to shunt client requests to the servers that are up, thus side-stepping client-side resolve timeouts. Chris Faehl -Original Message- From: bind-users-bounces+cfaehl

Re: Load Balancer for DNS

2010-04-05 Thread Greg Kuechle
Hi Sasa, For load balancing caching DNSs, you should try using anycast. When using loadbalancers you may(I did) run into capacity issues. Take a look at the quagga software package. It works great for load balancing. I have used both switches and anycast, and anycast is the way to go. Using a

RE: Load Balancer for DNS

2010-04-05 Thread Lightner, Jeff
Right - I was just playing Devil's advocate with my question. I wasn't the OP. We don't use load balancing for DNS here. However, we do use the F5 BigIP for other load balancing purposes so I know they're good for load balancing purposes and fairly stable. Of course as Alan points out the an

Re: Load Balancer for DNS

2010-04-05 Thread Sebastian Tymków
2010/4/5 sasa sasa > Hello everyone, > > Any one used any load balancer for DNSs? any recommendation? it's 2 > caching-only DNSs, and I'd like to make a load balance between them using > software. > Use LVS as freeware load balancer it's good enough. Best regards, Sebastian Tymkow

Re: Load Balancer for DNS

2010-04-05 Thread Matthew Pounsett
On 2010/04/05, at 02:06, sasa sasa wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Any one used any load balancer for DNSs? any recommendation? it's 2 > caching-only DNSs, and I'd like to make a load balance between them using > software. Unless you're willing to spend a lot of money, load balancers are general

Re: Load Balancer for DNS

2010-04-05 Thread Dan Durrer
Yes, we've been using the ip sla feature for some time now, works well. Bgp/ ospf via quagga also are great solutions . Dan Durrer No-ip.com Sent from my iPad On Apr 5, 2010, at 8:39 AM, Matthew Pounsett wrote: > > On 2010/04/05, at 02:06, sasa sasa wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> Any

Re: Same source port queries dropped by ServerIron load balancer

2010-04-05 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 4/4/2010 2:24 PM, Sten Carlsen wrote: On 04/04/10 17:41, Kevin Darcy wrote: On 4/1/2010 9:19 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: In article, Kevin Darcy wrote: Re-use of source ports for DNS queries is a bad security practice. I cast my vote in favor of penalizing it, in the default configurat

Re: Same source port queries dropped by ServerIron load balancer

2010-04-05 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 4/4/2010 3:33 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: In article, Kevin Darcy wrote: On 4/1/2010 9:19 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: In article, Kevin Darcy wrote: Re-use of source ports for DNS queries is a bad security practice. I cast my vote in favor of penalizing it, in the d

Re: Same source port queries dropped by ServerIron load balancer

2010-04-05 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 3/30/2010 5:36 AM, Abdulla Bushlaibi wrote: We are facing query drops by using dnsperf tool from ISC testing the DNS service via load balancer. Multiple queries from the same source port are being dropped partially by the load balancer and as per the load balancer vendor feed back, this is a

Re: Same source port queries dropped by ServerIron load balancer

2010-04-05 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , Kevin Darcy wrote: > On 4/4/2010 3:33 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: > > In article, > > Kevin Darcy wrote: > > > > > >> On 4/1/2010 9:19 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: > >> > >>> In article, > >>>Kevin Darcy wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > Re-use of source ports fo