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Aug 16, 2017

Accessing Global Load Balancer for IP adress of least busy node.

I have a number of local load balancers (F5) reporting their status to a Global Load Balancer, The GLB then sets the addresses in the DNS to point to the address associated with the node, monitored by the LLB, that is least busy. That way when a client attaches to the DNS to resolve the URL he wants to reach. the URL resolves to the least busy node according to the GLB. Now here is the problem. Not all of the clients are using the DNS that is modified by the GLB. Is there a way that I can have the clients access the GLB directly to get the IP address of the least busy node?

 

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  • You have stated that "not all clients are using DNS that is modified by GLB". If so, how are they accessing ? I know it seems like a simple/dumb answer but I am guessing you can identify the clients and make relevant changes for them to use DNS that is modified by GLB. In order to do this, you would have to understand how the clients are connecting, if not through the GLB.