Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

Wed Jan 19 02:25:28 UTC 2011

On 01/18/2011 07:42 AM, Sergey Voropaev wrote:
> Does any one know software sollutions (free is preferable) like as cisco GSS
> and F5 BIG-IP? The main point is that DNS-server (or dns server plugin) must
> be able to monitor server availability (for example by TCP connect) and from
> DNS-reply depends on it.
>
> I know that it is possible by BIND with set of script. But we are trying to
> find more usable solution with frendly interface.
>
> Thanks a lot.
If you want to get fancy you could try an Anycast DNS setup, using GNU's 
Zebra tool to automatically alter routing tables. 
http://www.netlinxinc.com/netlinx-blog/45-dns/118-introduction-to-anycast-dns.html

Paul