On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 12:59:14PM -0800, Tim Thorpe wrote:
What about sticking the entire cluster on private
IP's and having a load
balancing firewall appliance handle traffic flow which would randomly hit
the update box?
I think Nick is trying to have a global cluster, and you can not achieve
this with a simple load balancer. If one data center goes down, the load
balancer would go down, too.
DNS has ways to handle outage of a server, and Nick tries to use these.
JeLuF