Inbound load balancing and DNS
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Hi,
i read the posts in this forum and realized taht Inbound Load Balancing with multiple WANs requires some DNS trick (as stated in http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=b0eb879d85dfae649437072f11898e3f&topic=2087.0).
Is there anyone who already did it and wrote some howto?
Is there some kind of trigger in pfSense that fires when you switch from Main Connection to the Failover one?With inbound load balancing I mean having 2 (or more) WANs, with different public ip addresses mapped to a single internal server.
I know this is not pfSense load balancing.
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What you mean is no inbound loadbalancing.
Inbound loadbalancing is having multiple servers that share the load.What you are trying to do is quite simple:
Setup your server, add 2 NAT entries (one for each WAN) that forward the port from your external IP's to your server. finished. -
What you mean is no inbound loadbalancing.
Inbound loadbalancing is having multiple servers that share the load.What you are trying to do is quite simple:
Setup your server, add 2 NAT entries (one for each WAN) that forward the port from your external IP's to your server. finished.Maybe you read only the first line of my post. If you read further you'll find "I know this is not pfSense load balancing.", also stated in the link I posted.
By the way…
I have two NAT correctly working, but as you can suspect from the subject and my post, the problem is with DNS resolution. How can I have
www.myserver.tld resolve to the currently up ip address, as one interface is configured for failover.
You need a DNS somewhat linked to the loadbalancer status, and the question was if someone had this already done. -
i did read your whole post.
you want DNS-failover.
you might want to take a look at the DNS-server-package / DNS-Server-testing area. http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/board,41.0.html
