FW: wackamole 1.0
Bill Manning
bmanning at ISI.EDU
Wed Sep 5 15:01:07 UTC 2001
We interupt the normal NANOG threads for this potentially interesting item.
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%
% Hi,
%
% We at the Center for Networking and Distributed Systems at Johns Hopkins
% University
% (http://www.cnds.jhu.edu) are happy to announce the release of Wackamole,
% a software tool that provides N-Way Fail Over for IP Addresses in a cluster.
% It is available here: http://www.backhand.org/wackamole/ and is released
% under the CNDS open source license
% http://www.backhand.org/wackamole/LICENSE.shtml
% which is essentially a version of BSD license with a somewhat stronger
% advertising
% requirement.
%
% Wackamole is a tool that helps with making a cluster highly available.
% It manages a bunch of virtual IPs that should be available to the outside
% world at all times. Wackamole ensures that exactly one machine within the
% cluster is
% listening on each virtual IP address that Wackamole manages.
% If it discovers that particular machines within the cluster are not alive,
% it will
% almost immediately ensure that other machines acquire the virtual IP
% addresses the
% down machines were managing. At no time will more than one connected machine
% be
% responsible for any virtual IP.
%
% Wackamole also works toward achieving a balanced distribution of the public
% IPs
% within the cluster it manages.
%
% How it works:
% Wackamole runs as root on each of the cluster's machines. It uses the
% membership
% notifications provided by the Spread Toolkit (http://www.spread.org, also
% available
% under a similar license) to generate a consistent state that is agreed upon
% among
% all of the connected Wackamole instances.
% Wackamole uses this knowledge to ensure that all of the public IP addresses
% served
% by the cluster will be covered by exactly one Wackamole instance.
%
% Wackamole is the newest component in the Backhand project
% (http://www.backhand.org),
% adding to its predecessors mod_backhand and mod_log_spread.
%
% For questions or comments - e-mail wackamole at backhand.org
%
% Best regards,
%
% :) Yair. http://www.cnds.jhu.edu
--
--bill
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