[Gllug] squid, load balancing

[Bruce Richardson]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:54:55AM +0000, Chris wrote:
> 
>    I have not checked again, but I think that BIND9 can do round-robin DNS
> allocations, so that you can add webservers as needed.

DNS round robin is an extremely crude and unreliable form of
load-balancing.  It's acceptable for SMTP traffic, where immediate
delivery is not necessary and clients are capable of backing off and
trying another candidate.  It doesn't really work for websites.


-- 
Bruce

I unfortunately do not know how to turn cheese into gold.
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