This document was written as part of the documentation
of the PigeonAir Project to provide help and support to
users, system administrators or developers.
While every effort has been made to ensure that the
information is accurate at the time of publication,
this document may contain errors, omissions, incongruences
or wrong technical details. No liability for damages
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This document is meant to explain DNS Administrators how
to setup their own Bind DNS to balance connections in a
PigeonAir Cluster. You should be worried about using
the DNS as balancer if your PigeonAir cluster is made
of more than one node and if your installation does
not use any other kind of balancer.
It is strongly discouraged to use DNS balancing in
any cluster with more than 3/4 nodes, since it is
always better to use a dedicated
appliance or system to balance connections.
This document was written by Carlo Contavalli <ccontavalli at masobit.net>
and is thus Copyright (C) Carlo Contavalli 2003, 2004 and the PigeonAir Project.
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