Re: Re: DNS load balancing

ok i have a virtual host (name.mydomain.com) on the second server and DNS round robin puts me on the first server. How do i redirect my request to the second server.I will have to put the redirect on virtual host specifications but since i do not have it on the first server(as it is on the second server) where should i put the redirect request and how?

I hope my question is clear...still doing a feasibilty study :)


sachin.

"Pat Masterson" wrote:



On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, sachins_garg wrote:

>Thanks for the info pat..but what if i have different virtual hosts on
>the 2 servers ,,as this is what i am looking for so that i have enough
>space for virtual hosts constantly being created by the
>customers...will they be able to log onto their websites (virtual sites
>that they create)...i mean that if the virtual host cannot be found on
>the first server..will it look for it on the second server?

Round robin causes a client to randomly get one of the IPs in that set.
So if the virtual servers are different, a client might connect to the
system without the web service he is looking for. Thats not good. You
could put a redirect from one server to the other. That way the user
will always get to the correct one.

Some guys use a distribution funtion like "rsync" to keep one system as
a mirror of the other.



>
>also how can i synchronize the database on the two servers?
>
>

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