topic Re: reverse proxy and load balancer in Operating System - Linux

reverse proxy and load balancer

Marco_113 — Sat, 16 Oct 2004 14:28:38 GMT

Hi all,
anyone can suggest me any linux tool to configure my server as reverse proxy and load balancer?? (not squid)
Thanks

Steven E. Protter — Sat, 16 Oct 2004 19:21:27 GMT

To balance load you will probably need another piece of hardware to spread the load to.

I might suggest round robin DNS environment.

This spreads the load between servers by randoming assigning ip addresses for the same hostname between two physical or virtual interfaces.

Examples:

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/Round_Robin_DNS.html

http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/27025/27025.html

http://www.acmebw.com/askmrdns/archive.php?category=85&question=178

My search
http://www.google.com/search?q=dns+round+robin&sourceid=opera&num=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

SEP

Guru Dutta — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 06:55:41 GMT

For reverse proxy and load balancer you can use Pound .Check out this URL.http://www.apsis.ch/pound/

Also if u want only load balancer use MOSIX.