Re: multiple backhand clusters on one subnet?

Liam Hoekenga <[email protected]> Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:54:29 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-backhand.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
D'oh.  byHostname would fulfill this, wouldn't it?

I did run into a problem where requests were getting bounced between port 80 on
machine and 443 on another.  The backhand directives were in the top level of
the apache conf file.  Would placing them in the virtualhost blocks prevent this?

Liam

Quoting Liam Hoekenga <[email protected]>:

> We're considering using mod_backhand for load balancing on our cluster of
> webmail servers. As we're also considering backhand for load balancing on
> the
> servers that host our directory client, we only want them sharing their
> candidacy information with other servers in the same service (eg mail
> requests
> shouldn't get shunted to a directory server and vice versa).
> 
> The IP addresses for each service are non-contiguous, and both are on the
> same
> subnet.  Is it possible to place the machines in separate pools?  If so,
> how?
> 
> thx
> Liam
>