Re : 2 Colo's

Surya ARBY <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.load-balancing.general
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Hi all.

Everything described in Pete's web page is true (this guy created SLB and GSLB at Cisco in 1995, he knows his stuff :-) ), there are a lot of caveats in Active/Active design. 

There are some solutions to browser DNS caching using BGP route health injection or BGP conditionnal advertisement on front end routers (to overcome the dead A record problem), and complete persistance can be achieved with HTTP services (using source IP-based persistance for DNS isn't reliable because of load balanced resolvers coming into the DNS resolution process with different ip addresses for subsequent DNS requests coming from a specific client). TTL's are still not honored by most DNS resolvers in Asia, even here in France I had a lot of issues with a major ISP :)

I can send you a technical guide (tech deep dive) if you want to implement a full - reliable solution.

Just tell me.

regards,

Surya

--- En date de : Mer 27.5.09, Dane Ruyle <[email protected]> a écrit :

De: Dane Ruyle <[email protected]>
Objet: [load balancing] 2 Colo's
À: "Load Baalancing" <[email protected]>
Date: Mercredi 27 Mai 2009, 21h00




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Hi all,

 

I'd like to hear your input on the best way to bring a second collocation facility online.  We are a SAAS company.  Basically, our service is all tied to a domain name; the www record.  

 

It was my intent to use 2 A records to the WWW lookup. Then, use GSLB to control the traffic.    

 

This works fine when both sites are up and running, but what happens when one goes down - rely on the built-in failover mechanism is DNS (the second A record)?

 

There's a GSLB Page of Shame http://www.tenereillo.com/GSLBPageOfShame.htm

 

Would love to hear your input as I am going to be bringing a second one online.

 

Thanks for your time,

dane

 

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