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Re: DNS RR & Dual Directors ???

To: pb <peterbaitz@xxxxxxxxx>, "lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: DNS RR & Dual Directors ???
From: Joseph Mack <mack.joseph@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 10:32:10 -0500
pb wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Anyone know if this is possible with LVS directors:
> 
> DNS |------------- Director1/2 =====>| Real
>  RR |------------- Director3/4 =====>| Servers
>

people don't like DNS RR. The problem I know about is
that you can't flush people's caches when you want them
flushed (and you shouldn't be able to flush them when you 
want either).

I don't know if this is a problem: what happens if a client 
gets a different address for the server in the middle of a connection?
 
> Note:  Director1/2 have heartbeat.
>        Director3/4 have heartbeat.
>        The SAME Real Servers are routed to by
>        both sets of directors.
>        Yes I know this is overly-redundant.
> 
> Using NAT routing, the problem I see is setting the
> Real Servers default gateway to the NAT Router IP
> Address(es) of the Directors.  That is, each set of
> Directors have their own NAT Router IP address, so
> these seems to be a show stopper, no??? In other words
> all the Real Servers can only have ONE DEFAULT
> GATEWAY.

this is true, but why is it a problem (there's several issues
here and I don't want to spend my time talking about the ones you
understand).

> Also, with the latest kernels, does Tunneling and
> Direct Routing work yet, without having to apply some
> patch???   Specificially Red Hat kernels?

on the director or the realservers?

Joe

-- 
Joseph Mack PhD, Senior Systems Engineer, SAIC contractor 
to the National Environmental Supercomputer Center, 
ph# 919-541-0007, RTP, NC, USA. mailto:mack.joseph@xxxxxxx
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