[Xitami] Distributed?

[Bob Paddock]

On Sunday 07 April 2002 03:46 am, Ewen McNeill wrote:
> In message <5.1.0.14.0.20020329141428.03c06a30@canexus.com>, Matt Hunter 
writes:
> >I don't know how many of you are familiar with mod_backhand for the apache
> >server, but it allows you to have a cluster of servers with one master
> >server that handles all incoming connections.  Based on how busy each
> >machine is in the cluster, backhand decides if the master machine should
> >handle the request, or if it should redirect the request to another
> > machine...

Take a look at this, it might do what you need:

http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html

It works at the DNS level rather than the server level.

>From the FAQ:

How do I balance load among my web servers?
I have 50 identical servers running on IP addresses
1.2.3.150, 1.2.3.151, and so on.
I'd like to spread www.heaven.af.mil requests among those servers.
Answer:
For versions 1.04 and above:
Simply put all 50 addresses into data.
tinydns will automatically return a random set of 8 addresses
for each request.
For versions 1.03 and below:
Delegate www.heaven.af.mil to
pickdns.