Re: Login load balancing

From: Drew Leske <dleske@uvic.ca>
To: michael@grife.net
Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Login load balancing
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:37:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44510176.7020108@uvic.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604272026100.18949@amp.grife.net>

michael@grife.net wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Drew Leske wrote:
> 
>> Unfortunately we don't control the DNS--another group here has
>> responsibility for that.  I'll chat with them and see if they have
>> provision
>> for remote updates.
> 
> There is another possibility you could consider. Instead of having them
> enable remote updates, get them to delegate a new zone for you.
> 
> All you would need to do then is setup some bind servers. You would then
> have direct access to update the A records.

I considered that, but then I'm implementing a service provided by experts
in another group.  (I provide a BIND server internally for our cluster, but
not one with public access.)  This is, shall we say, "discouraged" (for good
reason--it's one more thing to be an expert in and we've already got experts
elsewhere).

Thanks!
Drew.

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Drew Leske :: Systems Group/Unix, Computing Services, University of Victoria
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