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On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 03:58:20PM -0000, Thomas Robinson wrote:
> >
> > > 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)
I haven't tested this particularl setup, but that should work as long as:
* Both the Linux Director and Real Servers can route to each others
RIP and IP respectivley.
* You don't have a virtual service covering udp (or tcp) port 53 for
the RIP on the Linux Director.
--
Horms
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