How does traffic flow to a web server whenever a web page is accessed?

  User Accessing websitesay: www.gunnalag.com Web Page Reaches Internet On internet, ISP (say: GoDaddy.com) hosting thatdomain (say: gunnalag.com) forwards it to registeredname servers for that domain (say: ns.gunnalag.com)on public IP Address Request comes to the Firewall (Say Cisco ASA or CheckPoint’s)hosted in DMZ. Firewall performs NAT (Public to Private) and RoutingBlocks any unintended or dis-allowed traffic Load Balancer (say F5 or Foundry), which acts as switch/router,redirects traffic to available free systems based on Public and Private IPsbinded for load balancing.Blocks any unintended and disallowed traffic on ports DNS server (say ns.gunnalag.com) resolves the requesteddomain/host names to private names and IP […]

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Load Balancing – What are the supported load balancing methods?

Loadbalancer.org supported load balancing methods The Loadbalancer.org appliance is one of the most flexible load balancers on the market. The design of the appliance allows different load balancing modules to utilize the core high availability framework of the appliance. Multiple load balancing methods can be used at the same time or in combination with each other.   Layer 4 DR (Direct Routing) Ultra-fast local server based load balancing Requires handling the ARP issue on the real servers 1 Arm Layer 4 NAT (Network Address Translation) Fast Layer 4 load balancing, the appliance becomes the default gateway for the real servers […]

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Configuring DNS – Linux Home Networking

Contents [hide] 1 Introduction 2 Introduction to DNS 2.1 DNS Domains 2.2 BIND 2.3 DNS Clients 2.4 Authoritative DNS Servers 2.5 How DNS Servers Find Out Your Site Information 2.6 When To Use A DNS Caching Name Server 2.7 When To Use A Static DNS Server 2.8 When To Use A Dynamic DNS Server 2.9 How To Get Your Own Domain 2.10 Basic DNS Testing of DNS Resolution 2.10.1 The Host Command 2.10.2 The nslookup Command 2.11 Downloading and Installing the BIND Packages 2.12 Managing the BIND Server 2.13 The /etc/resolv.conf File 2.13.1 Table 18.1 Keywords In /etc/resolv.conf 3 Important […]

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