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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron
radware also had that rather original triangle data flow mechanism i mentioned. frankly speaking, i don't know what happened to it. in its intact form, it doesn't work anyway. -- dima. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > Brantley Jones > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 10:45 AM > To: Mike Diehn > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron > > > > At 10:19 AM 7/6/2000 -0400, Mike Diehn wrote: > >* Brantley Jones ([email protected]) [07 05, 2000 22:30]: > > > > > > At 09:28 PM 7/5/2000 -0400, you wrote: > > > > > > >they also have the dns based solution available on > > > >serverirons. -- dima. > > > > > > Speaking of using a DNS proxy, does anybody know of anybody > > > else doing this besides Foundry?? > > > >Radware's WSD (Web Server Director) plays DNS server for clients > >wanting to resolve a hostname to the IP of a close (from a network > >latency perspective) server farm. > > > >It isn't a DNS proxy, though. It's acting as the authoritative > >DNS server for specific hostnames delegated to it by the servers > >authoritative for the parent zone. > > > >Resonate does that, too. And so does Cisco's global Director (I > >think). > > > >Is that what you were after? > > > >Mike > > Kind of. What we're trying to do here is provide a back-up only approach > for Internet service via NAT and VRRP/HSRP at the customer premise. The > problem is with people hosting applications on-site that require DNS > (www,MX,etc.). Trying to avoid using BGP as a back-up mechanism in this > case (for obvious reasons), if I could find a product that could act as a > authoritative DNS with a TTL of 0 or something, and only send replies for > applications when the primary IP was down or unreachable, and then > statically NAT our address over to the primary address at the customer > premise, I think we could have a pretty good solution for > providing back-up > Internet service, including web, mail, etc. applications. I will > definitely take a look at all the listed products and would appreciate > anyone's input on this matter. > > Thanks! > Brantley > > >
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