Understanding Load Balancing with DNS+PF+CARP

[Ask Bjørn Hansen]

On Aug 5, 2008, at 6:48, Rodrique Heron wrote:

> I'm a running a Apache reverse proxy on PF+CARP, one node as master  
> the
> other backup. I want a active/active setup, but since I don't have a
> hardware load balancer I'm banking on DNS. I would like to  
> understand what
> happens when a host connects to the cluster for the first time after  
> the
> first DNS query.
>
> So a user request www.website.com, DNS round-robin points the user  
> to node1,
> what happens when a the user makes another request ?


"It depends".  The client is in control of that.  Clients are different.

The setup I usually recommend is to have CARP (or similar) move one IP  
around and then ahve nginx or perlbal running to load balance to the  
actual servers.


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