[lvs-users] deciding among load balancers

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, thushara wijeratna wrote:

> [Is it correct that LVS provides failover semantics as well?

tools external to LVS handle the failover.

> Because
> as far as I can tell, nginx doesn't,

know nothing about it

> to get around this, we use DNS
> based mechanism so we have more than one nginx server registered, but
> of course this is less than ideal]

lvs was developed to get around the problems of DNS based 
load balancing

Joe

-- 
Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina
jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map
generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml
Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux!