Hello,
> Also, has anyone tried using nginx for DNS load balancing in production?
I would not recommend using nginx to load-balance DNS traffic at all.
nginx is just a dumb UDP proxy and I doubt it performs well enough
in a DNS setup.
dnsdist [1] is written with this purpose in mind and used in
Hello!
I was excited to learn that nginx is one of the few load balnacing software
supporting DNS. In my EC2 setup, I have nginx running on an m4.large
instance, my DNS test load comes from a t2.micro one. I have two nameservers
to be load balanced, each running on t2.medium.
Here is my config:
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