> So, the director shouldn't have a primary ip address for the
> externally-listening interface?
it can have any number of primary IPs on the outside. The only
one that ip_vs knows about is the VIP. The others aren't involved.
> What ip address is used when the real
> servers need to make connections to the outside, for dns or database
> access, for example?
this is not the concern of the ip_vs code. You have to configure
this separately. See the section in the HOWTO on 3-Tier realservers.
Joe
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