[Gllug] load balancing ip's

[will]

Murray wrote:
> I have a static ip, port 80 and I want to load balance the traffic across
> multiple hosts.  Ordinarily, something like round-robin dns would be
> perfect, but in this case dns isn't an option.
> 
> For reasons beyond my control, the domain must resolve to exactly 1 ip
> address.  Not fussed about complex load balancing tricks, just want an easy
> way to split the load across multiple servers.
> 
> Can it be done with iptables? I know you can use that to NAT 1 ip -> 1 ip,
> but can you do 1 ip -> many ip?
> 
> What's the best/easiest solution?

There is a section on load balancing in the apache docs:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html

including how to acheive what I think you are after with mod_rewrite. 
Haven't used any of these techniques though :-)

Will.



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