> Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 14:21:21 -0400
> To: pound@apsis.ch
> From: dave@redterror.net
> Subject: Re: [Pound Mailing List] Pound DNS and TCP Proxy / Load Balancing
>
> On 8/6/2011 2:06 PM, Mark wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > This looks like an interesting product - one I came across a long time
> > ago but have not had the need to use until perhaps now. With that i've
> > got 2 simple and short questions.
> >
> > 1. Can pound include backend servers where the backends are are called
> > by hostname DNS and then the TTL of the DNS is adhered to thus once
> > reached pound will resolve the DNS to the backend hostname again so that
> > when the IP changes for the backend pound will pick-up on this without
> > me needing to restart pound?
>
> I think there was a patch floating around for this, but I don't believe
> it's been merged into the main distribution. I may never be - I'm not
> sure exactly where that discussion ended.
>
> > 2. I see lots about http and https etc, but i'm looking at pound more
> > for TCP load balancing, I don't need any special gadgets and abilities
> > just a simple TCP balancing of SSL and http. IE i don't want pound to
> > terminate the SSL and look at the request, but I do want it to be able
> > to load balance SSL and http and pick-up on failure of backends if all
> > that is possible with pound?
>
> Pound is probably not what you want, since pound's modus operandi is to
> parse incoming HTTP headers and do stuff based on that. You'll probably
> find HAProxy more to your liking if you want TCP load balancing with the
> option of getting into HTTP specific stuff. Or relayd, if you happen to
> be an Openbsd user.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Dave Steinberg
> http://www.geekisp.com/
> http://www.steinbergcomputing.com/
> http://www.redterror.net/
>
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