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Multi-level wildcard DNS matched by *.domain.com?

Q1: Does a DNS rule for *.domain.com match multi-level domain names? In other words, if I just set *.domain.com in my DNS records, will it match all of: a.domain.com b.a.domain.com c.b.a.domain.com ...
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DNS Round Robin: Do browsers stick to one IP as long as it is online?

How do most browsers behave if they get multiple A-records from the DNS server? Do the stick to one IP as long as it is reachable (and only use another if the IP is down)? Or do they switch all the ...
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HAProxy with SSL and sticky sessions

We're trying to set up HAProxy (v1.5.1) to use SSL. While we managed to do that, we're having some issues with the round robin settings: We do want to have stick sessions, but haproxy seems to send ...
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Weighted round robins via TTL - possible?

I currently use DNS round robin for load balancing, which works great. The records look like this (I have a TTL of 120 seconds) ;; ANSWER SECTION: orion.2x.to. 116 IN A 80.237.201.41 orion....
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Is round-robin DNS a possible solution for high availability?

Let's say I have 2 IPs for a given domain (round-robin DNS). If one the IPs becomes unresponsive, will clients try to connect to the other IP? or they will just fail to establish comunication with the ...
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Load balancing / Failover for multiple VPS's set across different datacenters

I know many variants of this question has been asked already, but I still can't find a good answer to my needs. What I want to do is setup a few (2 at minimum) VPS's to host my web apps on. I'd like ...
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PowerDNS CNAME with multiple A records produces unexpected results

This problem from what i can tell is isolated to PowerDNS. The servers are running two packages pdns-static-3.0.1-1.i386.rpm and pdns-recursor-3.3-1.i386.rpm on the most recent version of Amazon Linux....
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Does my BIND zone really provide redundancy and load balancing?

We have the following IP addresses (for example): 1.1.1.1 2.2.2.2 Each hosts the same website, but on a different server. We want to do some really simple load balancing by having web users visit a ...
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What are the best practices for device-mapper multipath?

Background: We are setting up the new storage for an HPC Compute cluster for applied statistics, bioinformatics, and genomics. Contrary to our expectations, an active-active configuration did not ...
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