RE: Apache clustering w/ load balancing and failover

2003-09-21 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 15:05, Thomas Lamy wrote: > You're wrong. round robin dns isn't HA, isn't load balancing, it's just > request spreading. You can't control how many (DNS-)clients cache one of the > RR IP's, therefore you won't get even load on your RR'ed servers. > Plus you _have_ to use a too

Re: Apache clustering w/ load balancing and failover

2003-09-21 Thread Mathieu Martin
Thomas Lamy wrote: Mathieu Martin wrote: Mario Lopez wrote: Why not using 'roundrobin' ??? Install a couple of Web-Servers, give each Server an IP and then setup for each Server a A-Record on your DNS-Server pointing to the same hostname. The problem with round robin is th

RE: Apache clustering w/ load balancing and failover

2003-09-21 Thread Thomas Lamy
Mathieu Martin wrote: > > Mario Lopez wrote: > > >>Why not using 'roundrobin' ??? > >> > >>Install a couple of Web-Servers, give each Server an IP and > >>then setup for each Server a A-Record on your DNS-Server > >>pointing to the same hostname. > >> > >> > > > > > >The problem with round

Re: Apache clustering w/ load balancing and failover

2003-09-21 Thread Mathieu Martin
Mario Lopez wrote: Why not using 'roundrobin' ??? Install a couple of Web-Servers, give each Server an IP and then setup for each Server a A-Record on your DNS-Server pointing to the same hostname. The problem with round robin is that when one server fails over it keeps sending them co

Re: Apache clustering w/ load balancing and failover

2003-09-21 Thread Mario Lopez
>Why not using 'roundrobin' ??? > >Install a couple of Web-Servers, give each Server an IP and >then setup for each Server a A-Record on your DNS-Server >pointing to the same hostname. The problem with round robin is that when one server fails over it keeps sending them connections, I once sa