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Re: [lvs-users] Can't access Load Balancer IP on port 80 from behind the

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Subject: Re: [lvs-users] Can't access Load Balancer IP on port 80 from behind the LB
From: "L.S. Keijser" <leon@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:22:23 +0200
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 20:12 +0100, Graeme Fowler wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 09:01 -0700, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> > read the HOWTO about clients on realservers
> 
> To flesh out Joe's comment, the short answer is: you can't.
> 
> The longer answer is: you *might* be able to, but there is no guarantee
> that it will work at all. If it does, there's no guarantee it will
> continue to work.
> 
> Feel free to rad through the thread in the HOWTO that Joe mentioned and
> you'll get a handle on why it doesn't generally work.


If you don't have too many sites (apache vhosts) configured, you can add
them to /etc/hosts on the realserver as the RIP or 127.0.0.1. That way a
wget/curl/whatever started on the realserver will not go through the
director. 


Léon


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