RE: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron

[Karyn Ulriksen <kulriksen () publichost com>]

> I believe BigIP has a product called DNS3 that serves a similar function.
> One of our ".com's" uses it to support their dual co-lo set-up.

Two of F5's (www.f5.com) products are DNS3 and their BigIP series.  BigIP is
a software based load balancing device (i386 platform) and DNS3 is their
global load balancing DNS mechanism. 


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Colella [mailto:colella () aol net]
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 5:38 AM
To: nanog () merit edu
Subject: RE: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron



Products are also available from Alteon, Cisco (Distributed
Director) and Resonate.  Last time I looked, none of these
products does everything one wants, IMHO, but the set union
of features comes pretty close.

--Richard


> I believe BigIP has a product called DNS3 that serves a similar function.
> One of our ".com's" uses it to support their dual co-lo set-up.
>
> -TY
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brantley Jones [mailto:bjones () redundant net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 10:06 PM
> To: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: RE: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron
>
>
>
> At 09:28 PM 7/5/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>
> > they also have the dns based solution
> > available on serverirons.
> > --
> > dima.
>
> Speaking of using a DNS proxy, does anybody know of anybody else doing
this 
> besides Foundry??
>
> Brantley