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RE: Connection lost after running rc.lvs_dr script

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Connection lost after running rc.lvs_dr script
From: "Jeff Kilbride" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 14:03:10 -0700 (PDT)
DNS has built-in load balancing? Do you have a URL or any more info on the
Alan Cox stuff? Does anybody else agree that load balancing DNS servers
with LVS is not worthwhile?

Thanks,
--jeff


>> My only problem now is with the DNS services I am trying to
>> load balance. For some reason, it's not working while http
>> and smtp are fine. I can run DNS queries from the director
>> across the local network to each realserver and get a good
>> response, but when I try to access DNS on the VIP (using "dig
>> @VIP somedomain.com") I get a server timeout. The only
>> difference I see is that DNS uses UDP, but I have both TCP
>> and UDP domain services setup in ipvsadm:
>
> DNS had built-in load-balancing techniques.  From what I have read about
> it
> (Alan Cox) you are better off using the built-in methods than LVS.
>
> If you still want to persist with LVS-DNS I would recommend getting your
> network sniffing tools (tcpdump, ethereal) to identify & solve the
> problem.
>
> Regards,
>
> P
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