Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: NAT 4 Linux (project) | Date | 21 Aug 1998 23:18:01 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980821233153.11446A-100000@bean.xtdnet.nl> By author: Paul Wouters <paul@xtdnet.nl> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Michael Hasenstein wrote: > > > version of it could be used for their purposes. They wanted to have a > > setup, where a NAT router distributes HTTP requests to different > > (physical) web servers based on the user id of who's homepage is > > requested, e.g. http://www.blabla.com/a-user/ starts with 'a' (a-user) > > -> to server for homepages of users with 'a...'. > > There were some additional points about bandwith and cabling, why they > > wanted to separate the requests like this. > > I am probably missing something here. Why would you built something to > split up requests like this when it's a thousandfold easier to just do > some round robin DNS to divide the load? If NFS mounted disks on the > servers is too slow, i am sure some smart mirroring ultrawide scsi with > a fast network setup could fix that too. > > Paul
If a host goes down, it can be transparently removed (round-robin DNS will have the broken server listed until the entries expire on all clients.)
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