Steve,
That sounds really daft, from a performance perspective. Although I do
recall wanting to do a similar thing with firewall rules in the past
i.e. dynamic rules.
LVS definitely doesn't do that.
Haproxy will balance on a DNS entry, not sure if it caches the results
though (probably).
2009/2/27 Stjohnson <slists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a question about LVS. I¹m working on setting up a load balanced
> solution that will do routing/NAT, so that the lVS is a hairpin or
> termination point for VIPs, which will then source NAT requests to real
> servers. So far so good, not a big challenge as I read the docs.
>
> But for the round robin association to real servers, I need LVS to do a DNS
> query to a list of real servers referenced by DNS name rather than IP. Then
> based on the result of DNS, goto that IP that time for the real server.
>
> VIP: VIP.1
> real-server: host1.dns.com (not an IP)
> real-server: host2.domain.com
>
>
> Does LVS have the capability to have a FQDN as a real-server? And if so, is
> there any config for caching? Ideally, I want a DNS query each time a VIP is
> hitting the real-server pool, so that it always gets the latest info from
> the DNS server.
>
> Thanks for any insight!
>
> -steve
>
>
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