Load balancing using a Linux Box?

[George Toft]

Round robin DNS is easy - just add a second A record.  This is what we
do at my (soon to be former) web hosting job.

I tried Ultra-Monkey which is based on VA-Linux System's patches to the
RH 6.2 kernel.  Worked great under testing (2.6-5.2 mbps oscillating
load for five days), but it locked up hard within an hour when we put 
it online with real servers.  That sucked.

RR-DNS has worked fine for us.  It was good enough to survive publicity
by the Howard Stern show about a month ago.

George


sinck@ugive.com wrote:
> 
> \_ Is it possible to do Load Balancing on my webservers using a Linux box?
> 
> Round robin will solve some of it; try search for dynamic DNS?  Maybe
> in the DNS-HOWTO?
> 
> David
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