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Dipta_02_148889's avatar
Dipta_02_148889
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Dec 29, 2014

If I have a domain suppose www.xyz.com and if the top level URL is xyz.com , then how loadbalancing works?

Right now I have a URL www.xyz.com pointing to www.iws.xyz.com ( wideip name ) and under it I have 3 datacenters o which traffic to routed based on RR fashion. So its a GTM----->>LTM set up. Now users have their top level URL as xyz.com, as per DNS theory we cant have a top level URL pointing to a CNAME, rather I can have xyz.com pointing to a A record. So in this case I can point xyz.com to any of LTM Virtual IPs . So my question is cant we have lodabalancing set up for top level URLs then? If we can then how?

 

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  • dipta_03_149731's avatar
    dipta_03_149731
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    Jan 05, 2015

    Hello Brad, Thanks for your reply. I dont think we can have xyz.com as an alias since its a top level URL.

     

    • Brad_Parker's avatar
      Brad_Parker
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      Jan 05, 2015
      Top level domains can be added as aliases. An alias in a wide IP is similar to a CNAME in BIND, but they aren't the same. Wide IPs can respond for top level domains.