How to make a irc.* pool for an irc network?

awyeah · none Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 26

Hi!

I have a question which is related to IRC. This might not be the correct place to ask, but anyway I am using "A" records for most of my irc servers, so I'll go and ask.

See we have a network say a domain: www.mycar.net
For the irc server we use a subdomain "irc" --> irc.mycar.net

Now the thing is for the network we have plenty of servers. Say like:

car1.mycar.net
car2.mycar.net
car3.mycar.net
car4.mycar.net
car5.mycar.net

And irc.mycar.net would be pointing to all of these or something like that making a "POOL". So if some one types irc.mycar.net they would try to connect to the fastest server normally which they can say car2.mycar.net for instance.

Like irc.dal.net would connect you to any like mesra.kl.my.dal.net or hotspeed.sg.as.dal.net depending upon geographical location and the isp you use.

My question is I use "A" type to point to my server names, how can I make a pool of such type for my network "irc.mycar.net"? How can this be done? by using "A" type? Can we add a number (more than one) of A type points for a single subdomain?

Apostle · none Joined: 18 Jan 2004 Posts: 28

You would have something like this:

irc.mycar.net A Server1IP
irc.mycar.net A Server2IP
irc.mycar.net A Server3IP

and so on.

Wolf · none Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 6

Sounds to me your talking about a round robin. What it does is takes a pool of Ip's and randomly pics one out of the pool.
Say Irc.searchirc.net was your IRC server , and you had 20 servers, what you would have to do is have Irc.searchirc.net pointed at the roundrobin and it would randomly choose between the 20 servers.

Sounds to me your setting up your dns xt via CpanelX, or whm.
If your looking for a Round Robin I would suggest
http://www.no-ip.com/
cheap and reliable.

Wolf

awyeah · none Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 26

KTHX Wolf I appreciate it, will try out no-ip.com. I should purchase the Managed DNS package? they'll host the domain then too I guess also mail.

As for your oppinion Apostle, it didn't work. I added these in:

irc.awyeah.org A 200.73.4.214
irc.awyeah.org A 216.180.251.122
irc.awyeah.org A 63.247.129.72
irc.awyeah.org A 64.91.237.2
irc.awyeah.org A 65.75.160.130
irc.awyeah.org A 66.197.220.222
irc.awyeah.org A 67.43.3.69
irc.awyeah.org A 67.43.3.78
irc.awyeah.org A 69.22.184.26
irc.awyeah.org A 69.44.58.203
irc.awyeah.org A 69.72.129.2
irc.awyeah.org A 70.84.115.96
irc.awyeah.org A 72.9.227.213

And now it doesn't /dns resolve to anything, neither connects /server irc.awyeah.org

Wolf · none Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 6

What they host is the subdomain of your choice. exmp, say u wanted irc.mychat.net to resolve to 20 diff servers. What you do is input irc.mychat.net address towards the round robin, then input all the servers listed for it to point to, simple as that, so intern u still host the *domain* ,just simply pointing your main IRC server towards the round robin, and it returns the 20 servers in random specs.

Raven · Newbie Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 72 Location: IRC

Acutally when you are doing a round robin on a dns server ie: bind 9
example would be something like this.

irc.mydomain.com IN A x.x.x.x
IN A x.x.x.x
IN A x.x.x.x

and so forth. If someone says it dont work, it does cause that's how I have mine setup.