AW: DNS Load Balancing keeps getting upstream errors

2017-08-31 Thread Lukas Tribus
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

DNS Load Balancing keeps getting upstream errors

2017-08-30 Thread mangysushi
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: $