DNS Based Load Balancers

Tue Jul 4 14:53:05 UTC 2006

On 7/4/06, Sam Stickland <sam_mailinglists at spacething.org> wrote:
>
> Matt,
>
> A few quick questions for you, if you got the time to answer it would be
> appreciated (questions inline):
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
> > Matt Ghali
> > Sent: 04 July 2006 07:21
> > To: Patrick W. Gilmore
> > Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> > Subject: Re: DNS Based Load Balancers
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> >
> > > Would you mind giving us a little more to go on than "the love of
> > > god" before making strategic architectural decisions?
> > >
> > > Just in case we like to decide things for ourselves. :)
> >
> > Patrick, I am sorry if I have hit a nerve with you- it seems you've
> > got a vested interest in the answer to this question, and I
> > appreciate your position.
> >
> > > For instance, was F5's implementation flawed, or do you have a reason to
> > > dislike the basic idea?  And why?
> >
> > For the record, what I _should_ have advised the OP was "for the
> > love of god, don't try to do this yourself with an appliance." I
> > wholeheartedly encourage him to give his local Akamai sales rep a
> > call. I am sorry for the confusion and angst my brevity has caused.
>
> We work with a couple of different technologies here - our own GSS's, cache
> farms and also external CDNs (for overflow). This is currently and area that
> is currently under evaluation for a quite significant expansion.
>
> Are you able to give some kind of description as to the problems you
> experienced whilst using your own appliances? It would be very useful to be
> able to avoid making the same mistakes.
>
> Sam
>
>

As someone who has also deployed GSLB's with hardware applicances I
would also like to know real world problems and issues people are
running into "today" on modern GSLB implementations and not
theoretical ones, as far as I can tell our GSLB deployment was very
straight forward and works flawlessly.

-- 
Rodrick R. Brown