Tag: Load Balancing

NTLM Authenticating Proxy Check Script

We do quite a bit of work with web proxy vendors, loadbalancing multiple web filters/proxies with one of our appliances and our customers have requested a way of health checking through the proxy when they have NTLM authentication enabled. Always happy to help where we can I have created a script that will retrieve a

A10 Quick Classes (#3): Deploying an IPv6-ready Website for Your Enterprise

See all the A10 Quick Classes at www.a10networks.com We will show how to configure your AX application delivery controller as an IPv6-IPv4 gateway, which will enable IPv6 clients to access your existing IPv4 infrastructure. The AX Series provides load balancing services to any combination of IPv4 or v6 clients, and IPv4 or IPv6 servers.

Apache and X-Forwarded-For Headers

As a follow on to my previous blog, its easier to get Apache to log client IP addresses utilizing X-Forwarded-For headers than it is using IIS. By default, the logs do not record source IP addresses for clients but this is very easy to change using the LogFormat directive in the httpd.conf file as explained

GSLB – Why do Global Server Load Balancers Suck?

OK, Before the flames start let me state the usual caveat, “GSLBs don’t ALWAYS suck, just most of the time”. Here at Loadbalancer.org we have toyed with the idea of selling a GSLB (as most of our competitors do), it wouldn’t take long… to hack a decent PowerDNS interface onto one of our appliances… But every

Don’t let a web server attack ruin your holiday spirit – or your online revenue

What gadgets are on your wish-list this year? Doing some or all of your shopping online to take advantage of great deals or save time? You’re not alone, and according to some estimates more than 60% of people in the U.S

G-Zip Compression and Loadbalancing

A couple of our customers have asked if our appliances would do G-Zip compression in the past we haven’t given it much thought. Then out of the blue a company offered us a card to test with http://www.aha.com/ and some of us in the office welcoming the opportunity to meddle with anything new jumped at