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On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:08:11AM -0500, Steve Devine wrote: All: We manage the public afs rotary (afs.msu.edu). This rotary is comprised of 12 separate unix servers running samba as well as other services. When we need to patch a server we ask Hostmaster to remove it from the dns rotary. This doesn't seem to accomplish much however because even with these machines out of the rotary the isolated server still gets multiple requests for samba service. We recently had three out for several days and the minute we put them back on line they were serving samba requests even though they still were out of the rotary. [snip] Just out of curiousity... why are we still using DNS/WINS round-robin for this and pilot? Load balancers are very affordable and pratical for distributing load and providing failover. It would easily fix the problems associated with DNS/WINS caching for maintenance, that, and if a system were to go down (loose either TCP heartbeat on the SMB port or the physical interface loose link) it will automatically be removed from the pool and admins notified... no intevention from a hostmaster modifying DNS/WINS needed. Dennis