Re: Secondary backup DNS www record

From: William Stacey [MVP] (staceywREMOVE_at_mvps.org)
Date: 06/10/04 

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:57:48 -0400

AFAICT, BigIP will load balance connections to *it's IP to (N) backend
servers. It does not handle the remaining issue of dns handing out lame IPs
as the akami tech does so you can still end up hitting a down server. The A
records could be pointing to BigIP servers (or other load balancers), or
not - does not really matter for what I am talking about. To remove an A
record or add others (say that BigIP server went down or new one goes up)
dynamically requirers other tech behind the dns server(s). BTW - That
sounds like a very $$ product - yes? 

-- 
William Stacey, MVP
"Ace Fekay [MVP]"
<PleaseSubstituteMyActualFirstName&LastNameHere@hotmail.com> wrote in
message news:#wDTMCwTEHA.3012@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> In news:eqF$VakTEHA.2408@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl,
> Deji Akomolafe <deji@REMOVEPADDINGakomolafedotcom> posted their thoughts,
> then I offered mine
> > At the risk of prolonging this thread unnecessarily, let me add that
> > I do not believe that Akamai is doing their load-balancing thru DNS,
> > so the Yahoo reference has no bearing here. I certainly invested in a
> > hardware load-balancer (F5) when I had to do something like this. DNS
> > (Bind or MS) is NOT intended for this purpose. Even though I've been
> > known to be wrong before, this is not one of the cases.
> >
> > And, Herb. A little courtesy wouldn't hurt, please. I hardly know you.
> >
> >
>
> I guess you got your question answered. In most cases, a device such as
> BigIP will do the trick, but as William mentioned, DNS is limited in what
it
> could do and that goes with what you mentioned.
>
> As for Herb, that's Herb.
>
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Ace
>
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>
> Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
> Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
>
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