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RE: Will director node run DNS and sendmail?

To: <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Will director node run DNS and sendmail?
From: "Thomas Robinson" <tom.robinson@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 15:58:20 -0000
> 
> > Can the director node handle running other services whilst 
> still dealing
> > with load balancing and monitoring for failover? I want to 
> run DNS and
> > sendmail on the director. Is that a good idea?
> 
> It all depends on how powerful your Linux Director is, how much load
> balancing traffic it is seeing and how much DNS and sendmail 
> traffic you
> expect to see. Certainly what you want to do is possible, and 
> more than
> likely won't stress out your machine.
> 

So another question would be: Under an LVS-DR setup (with the arp
problem handled) can a realserver still resolve to DNS running on a
director without upsetting everything else including the administrator?
(i.e. resolve DNS via the RIP's on the same NIC that has the VIP)

T.


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