Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

2011-01-21 Thread david raistrick
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Jay Reitz wrote: gdnsd is very robust and fast and has an interface that a networking engineer won't mind. It comes with a geolocation plugin with health-check failover via HTTP. http://code.google.com/p/gdnsd/ Thanks Jay, that looks like a good option - I like single-f

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-01-21 Thread david raistrick
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: freebsd + varnish + carp (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/carp.html) two of the three won't work @ EC2 (for my purposes, no idea about the original poster - but he did ask about DNS based solutions so I suspect he's in a similar boat) -- david rai

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

2011-01-19 Thread InterNetX - Jürgen Gotteswinter
Am 19.01.11 01:01, schrieb david raistrick: On 01/18/2011 09:42 AM, Sergey Voropaev wrote: Does any one know software sollutions (free is preferable) like as cisco GSS and F5 BIG-IP? The main point is that DNS-server (or dns server plugin) must be able to monitor server availability (for examp

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

2011-01-19 Thread Joe Abley
On 2011-01-19, at 08:17, Joe Greco wrote: > You wouldn't use Zebra; it isn't actively developed anymore and has > not been updated in many years. Use Quagga instead, which is the > community-based offshoot. I don't think this is what the original post was asking about, but for the sake of com

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

2011-01-19 Thread Joe Greco
> On 01/18/2011 07:42 AM, Sergey Voropaev wrote: > > Does any one know software sollutions (free is preferable) like as cisco GSS > > and F5 BIG-IP? The main point is that DNS-server (or dns server plugin) must > > be able to monitor server availability (for example by TCP connect) and from > > DNS

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-01-18 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 02:42:57PM -0500, david raistrick wrote: >On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Rhys Rhaven wrote: > >> Having hit these issues myself, I heavily recommend a real frontend >> proxy like nginx or varnish. > >A frontend proxy (nginx, varnish, haproxy, or anything

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

2011-01-18 Thread Jon Lewis
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Charles N Wyble wrote: He asked about DNS based loadbalancing (also known as GSLB, among other things) software packages Ah. DNS based load balancing. I've heard good things about powerdns for that. I assume the "good things" is that with powerdns and the gmysql ba

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

2011-01-18 Thread Paul Graydon
On 01/18/2011 07:42 AM, Sergey Voropaev wrote: Does any one know software sollutions (free is preferable) like as cisco GSS and F5 BIG-IP? The main point is that DNS-server (or dns server plugin) must be able to monitor server availability (for example by TCP connect) and from DNS-reply depends o

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

2011-01-18 Thread Jay Reitz
> PowerDNS has an awsome geolocation plugin, and that probably can be tied to > a check to see if the IP is up so it's actually checking the status of IPs > to make it more automated. > > Gary > gdnsd is very robust and fast and has an interface that a networking engineer won't mind. It comes wit

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

2011-01-18 Thread Gary Steers
>What does that mean? Load balance DNS lookups across multiple servers? >Or use DNS to load balance? I've never setup a load balancer for DNS >before. Always just had one server and moved the VM in event of >failure/maintenance. * * I think using DNS to load balance is what was meant, PowerDNS can

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

2011-01-18 Thread Charles N Wyble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/18/2011 04:01 PM, david raistrick wrote: > >> On 01/18/2011 09:42 AM, Sergey Voropaev wrote: >>> Does any one know software sollutions (free is preferable) like as >>> cisco GSS >>> and F5 BIG-IP? The main point is that DNS-server (or dns server

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

2011-01-18 Thread Gary Steers
Hi Guys, First time post so please excuse. * * I think you can get a free Citrix NetScaler virtual applicance (VPX) that will do this with GSLB. other then that PowerDNS has a very good geolocation plugin, so they may also have an availabiliy plugin for checks... * * I am also looking for a combi

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

2011-01-18 Thread david raistrick
On 01/18/2011 09:42 AM, Sergey Voropaev wrote: Does any one know software sollutions (free is preferable) like as cisco GSS and F5 BIG-IP? The main point is that DNS-server (or dns server plugin) must be able to monitor server availability (for example by TCP connect) and from DNS-reply depends

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

2011-01-18 Thread Charles N Wyble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ha-proxy and linux virtual server are popular packages. On 01/18/2011 09:42 AM, Sergey Voropaev wrote: > Does any one know software sollutions (free is preferable) like as cisco GSS > and F5 BIG-IP? The main point is that DNS-server (or dns server plu

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

2011-01-18 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Dorn Hetzel wrote: > If it wouldn't be too ugly, could this be circumvented by having the web > application continually do its next operation against an incrementing > subhost name like syymmddhhmmss or snnn.www.foo.com in order to convince > the local browser

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

2011-01-18 Thread david raistrick
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Jack Bates wrote: On 1/18/2011 1:42 PM, david raistrick wrote: Normally, VRRP would be the way to go. But these days multicast isn't supported everywhere (major example - Amazon EC2), leaving DNS... Many HA environments use both, and F5 is designed to do both, support

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

2011-01-18 Thread Jack Bates
On 1/18/2011 1:42 PM, david raistrick wrote: Normally, VRRP would be the way to go. But these days multicast isn't supported everywhere (major example - Amazon EC2), leaving DNS... Many HA environments use both, and F5 is designed to do both, supporting DNS tricks (of which, you could poss

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

2011-01-18 Thread david raistrick
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Rhys Rhaven wrote: Having hit these issues myself, I heavily recommend a real frontend proxy like nginx or varnish. A frontend proxy (nginx, varnish, haproxy, or anything else) doesnt give you HA any more than any other loadbalancer solution does. You need a way to send

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

2011-01-18 Thread david raistrick
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, William Herrin wrote: Net result is that in some cases a user's long-running browser will indefinitely ignore the change you made to the DNS. I've seen such things persist for months. Do you have any recent evidence to support this? The what-browsers-do-with-what world c

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

2011-01-18 Thread Christopher Hunt
>Message: 7 >Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:31:32 -0600 >From: Jack Bates >Subject: Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution >To: Sergey Voropaev >Cc: NANOG list >Message-ID: <4d35dc84.8020...@brightok.net> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

2011-01-18 Thread Rhys Rhaven
Having hit these issues myself, I heavily recommend a real frontend proxy like nginx or varnish. On 01/18/2011 12:45 PM, William Herrin wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Sergey Voropaev > wrote: >> Does any one know software sollutions (free is preferable) like as cisco GSS >> and F5 BIG

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

2011-01-18 Thread InterNetX - Marco Schrieck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Am 18.01.11 19:31, schrieb Jack Bates: > On 1/18/2011 11:42 AM, Sergey Voropaev wrote: >> I know that it is possible by BIND with set of script. But we are >> trying to >> find more usable solution with frendly interface. >> > > I think powerdns

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

2011-01-18 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Sergey Voropaev wrote: > Does any one know software sollutions (free is preferable) like as cisco GSS > and F5 BIG-IP? The main point is that DNS-server (or dns server plugin) must > be able to monitor server availability (for example by TCP connect) and from > DN

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

2011-01-18 Thread Jack Bates
On 1/18/2011 11:42 AM, Sergey Voropaev wrote: I know that it is possible by BIND with set of script. But we are trying to find more usable solution with frendly interface. I think powerdns is more flexible in this regard. Not sure about a friendly interface, though. Jack

Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

2011-01-18 Thread Sergey Voropaev
Does any one know software sollutions (free is preferable) like as cisco GSS and F5 BIG-IP? The main point is that DNS-server (or dns server plugin) must be able to monitor server availability (for example by TCP connect) and from DNS-reply depends on it. I know that it is possible by BIND with se