[TriLUG] Load balancing DNS servers

[Steve Litt via TriLUG]

On Fri, 3 May 2019 10:45:49 -0400
Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> How would you load balance them so you only have to provide a single
> IP to the clients? If I were to use a database term, this smells like
> multimaster replication. If those servers also do DHCP, how would the
> updates be shared with each node so everyone will be on the same page?
> What about leases?

I'm going to assume by "DNS Servers" you mean authoritative DNS servers
rather than DNS resolvers.

How many DNS requests are you getting per second or per hour in order
to need more than one physical machine doing the authoritative DNS?

Thanks,

SteveT