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Re: DNS Based Load Balancers

  • From: Matt Ghali
  • Date: Sat Jul 01 22:43:48 2006

On Sat, 1 Jul 2006, Paul Vixie wrote:

I'm soliciting recommendations for DNS based load balancers.

my recommendation is: "don't do it." for background, see:

http://www.ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/namedroppers.2002/msg02168.html
http://www.cctec.com/maillists/nanog/current/msg03572.html
http://www.cctec.com/maillists/nanog/current/msg00671.html
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Paul Vixie

Having implemented F5's 3DNS product for a large entertainment company, I'd like to wholeheartedly agree with Paul.

Please, for the love of god, don't do it.

matto

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