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Kostas Zorbadelos
kzorba at otenet.gr
Fri Oct 7 14:10:14 CEST 2011
Rasmus Larsen <rwl at tele.gl> writes: > On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 15:17 +0300, Kostas Zorbadelos wrote: I don't know where it is best to start a discussion for this but I admit that load balancing interests me. >> Now, this article also contains opinions on other matters I am not sure >> I support. For example, it also criticizes badly the use of DNS for load >> balancing on the grounds of "DNS was not designed to express >> policy". And what happens when a single machine is not enough to >> accomodate load? Do you employ NAT load balancers? Is this a better >> idea? Having a single "name" for a "service" seems to me like a good >> idea in general. >> Anyway, long talk, I guess it needs a thread of its own. > > Agreed, in particular NAT load balancers either limit the use of IPSEC > in transport mode (which will become viable with ipv6), or will break > horribly when people start using it. From my point of view, DNS seems to > be the best load balancing strategy out there. > This is a drawback in NAT load balancers I hadn't considered. Nice to know. Generally speaking, load balancing can be addressed either at the DNS or the routing layer. I am not aware of a "universal and clean" solution that would fit all purposes. An extra interesting thing is what will be used in IPv6 environments (which is a question posed also in the v6 WG in regards to RIPE 501) > Regards, > Rasmus Larsen > -- Kostas Zorbadelos twitter:@kzorbadelos http://gr.linkedin.com/in/kzorba ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- () www.asciiribbon.org - against HTML e-mail & proprietary attachments /\
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