Experiences With eBox Platform (Total Network Solution for Small Business)

eBox platform provides a mini-debian installation along with its modules to allow you to provide and manage network services on your corporate network. The key capabilities includes support for multiple external network interfaces with load balancing, traffic shaping, transparent proxy, firewall, content filters, DNS (domain name server), NTP (time server), mail server, Jabber Instant Messaging server, SAMBA for file sharing, DHCP and more. In short it promise to be a one-stop solution for all network services needs for small businesses. Particularly I was interested in load balancing between multiple ADSL providers and traffic shaping capabilities. Here are my experiences with eBox platform.

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How To Implement Round Robin DNS for Load Balancing Servers

Round robin DNS is a simple way to load balance your servers. You can use it balance the load between multiple web / ftp or other servers. Each server has its own IP address. In round robin mode the DNS serves one of the available IP addresses in random order to the requester. The simplest way to implement round robin DNS is with A records in your zone file. For example my taragana.com.hosts file (zone file for taragana.com zone which is used by Bind name server) currently has the following entries: Full article (325 words) »

Simple Firefox DNS Hacks To Boost Performance

FirefoxWhile an individual DNS request often takes small time to execute, when the primary DNS server is overloaded or unavailable it can take quite sometime to resolve your requests. Now what has that to do with improving Firefox performance?

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