[Pdns-users] Return answer according to availability of a server

[Victor Hugo dos Santos]

BTW,

The lua configuration will only deliver the list of the servers
available for the new queries. For example, let imagine you have the 3
registers www and a TTL of 1 hour:

- One client makes a query for the www register and will store it
locally for 1 hour
- 5 minutes later, one of your servers goes down.
- the PDNS will now only respond to the www queries with the 2
available servers/IPs.
- but the first client, will maintain the 3 IPs/servers on it cache
- the client browser will then try to connect to one of your servers,
but if it is unavailable, it will try the next one
- after 55 minutes more, the first client will ask again for the www
register and then will get only the 2 available servers/IPs.

So, you can reduce the TTL of the www register from 1 hour to 60 or 30
seconds and try to reduce/eliminate this "dead connection" on the
client side, "but" with these change you will increase the queries
that the clients are doing to the DNS servers. ;-/

you need to pick one !! :-D

Salu2

On Tue, 26 Sept 2023 at 19:37, Victor Hugo dos Santos
<listas.vhs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello there,
>
> you mean, something like this:
> https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/lua-records/index.html
>
> Anyway, you don't need it for http protocol, because it is included by
> default in almost all the browsers (rfc8305 if I remember well), so,
> you only need to create the registers:
>
> www IN A 1.1.1.1.1
> www IN A 2.2.2.2.2
> www IN A 3.3.3.3.3
>
> and it will create a round robin for you on the DNS server and if the
> web server on 1.1.1.1 is down, the client will automatically use the
> others servers.
>
> Note: There is a small performance, because the browser will need to
> contact the next server if the first is down.
>
> Salu2
>
> On Tue, 26 Sept 2023 at 18:43, Riccardo Brunetti via Pdns-users
> <pdns-users at mailman.powerdns.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everybody.
> > I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to make pdns (or dnsdist) to return a different answer according to the availability of a service.
> > Suppose we have:
> >
> > - server A with IP: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
> > - server B with IP: YYY.YYY.YYY.YYY
> >
> > Server A and B are two web servers which are configured to answer to a given http GET like http://myservice.net.
> > They are both configured in the same way and are independent.
> >
> > I would like the DNS query to return XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX as long as the server A is working (returns 200 to the GET) or return YYY.YYY.YYY.YYY when server A is not working.
> > In other words, I would like to have two records A for myservice.net with a somehow "intelligent" behavior and not a simple round-robin.
> >
> > Can you suggest me how to achieve this, if it's possible?
> >
> > Thanks a lot
> > Riccardo
> >
> >
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