[icecast-dev] Asymmetric load balancing

[Michael Paine]

How does this affect the fallback-mount(s) if the main mount isn't being
used?

<p>>Th redirect should of course include some info in the redirect URL 
>regarding how many times it's been redirected - you don't want to get 
>into a situation where users are bounced around indefinately.
>
>Personally, I'd go a step further and collect performance data so that 
>load balancing can make better decisions for redirects. No sense in 
>redirecting a local connection to a remote site.
>
>
>
>> Round robin DNS isn't really appropriate as you noticed.  Something
will
>> have to be done among the icecast servers themselves, and what is
coming
>> to my mind really quickly is some kind of new config option to
specify a
>> list of mirror servers.
>> 
>> If the client limits are hit on the server, it sends back an HTTP
>> redirect with the location of a random mirror (not itself).  This
should
>> be transparent to clients and acheive the affect you want.  You could
>> also combine with with round robin DNS to spread people over the
servers
>> initially.
>> 
>> Seems fairly elegant.  Probably you want this configurable on a mount
>> level not a global server level, but it shouldn't be too hard to
>> implemenet.  Just a config file addition plus some extra logic in the
>> main connect loop, similar to what happens on a 404.
>> 
>> jack.
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