- From: Mark Stover <mstover@lis.pitt.edu>
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 16:46:56 -0500 (EST)
- To: "LaCoursiere J. D." <z056716@uprc.com>
- Cc: Multiple recipients of list <www-proxy@www10.w3.org>
On Fri, 17 Mar 1995, LaCoursiere J. D. wrote: > > > I am anticipating a heavy load for our internal WWW server. Has anyone > experimented with Bind's round robin feature to load balance local web > traffic? I have in mind setting up two or three identical web servers > and giving them all the same name in DNS, using th eround robin feature > to distribute the load... > Even if you choose to use Bind's round-robin feature, you must still deal with the caching of ip addresses by other hosts and name servers. If you have one or two heavy users on hosts who both happened to receive the same IP address from the DNS server, they will completely hog that one host and continue to ignore the others. Load balancing using this method will probably be only mildly effective. mark
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