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mlamutt_62697
Aug 19, 2011Nimbostratus
Need help moving traffic between data centers
Hi all, We ran into an issue recently with a site that we are hosting in 2 Data centers. We use dynamic DNS to route traffic between 2 data
centers (GTMS and LTMS). Last week we moved a site betwe...
hooleylist
Aug 22, 2011Cirrostratus
Hi Mike,
If their client(s) don't do a DNS lookup while using an active TCP connection, I think you'd need to reset their connections to force a lookup and move to the other datacenter. I guess you could proxy traffic to the new datacenter with an iSession tunnel, but I think that defeats your point of moving traffic to the second datacenter.
What protocol(s) are you servicing? Is there a concept of redirecting the client to a new FQDN which is specific to the other datacenter? Or a way to force the client to do a new DNS resolution which doesn't involve resetting the connection?
Aaron
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