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Load Balancing and DNS
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24 Apr 2012 07:20 #72004
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I have 2 Internet connections:
1. Talk Talk Business connected through the ADSL Port
2. BE Broadband through their Thomson Router in bridge mode, connected to the WAN port of my Draytek
When I have either one connected by itself, eveything works fine. However, when I set them to Load Balance and Auto Weight, the problems occur. I would like one PC on the network to use the BE Broadband connection only and the rest to use the other connection. So I set up a load balance policy to force everything from the Source IP Address to use WAN2 (BE Broadband). However, when I did this, that PC couldn't seem to then resolve external DNS. If I forced it to WAN1, it would work fine. If I force the DHCP Server to give out external DNS servers to the local clients, it seems to resolve the problem but is slow.
Can you help me so that I can use the router as the DNS Server?
1. Talk Talk Business connected through the ADSL Port
2. BE Broadband through their Thomson Router in bridge mode, connected to the WAN port of my Draytek
When I have either one connected by itself, eveything works fine. However, when I set them to Load Balance and Auto Weight, the problems occur. I would like one PC on the network to use the BE Broadband connection only and the rest to use the other connection. So I set up a load balance policy to force everything from the Source IP Address to use WAN2 (BE Broadband). However, when I did this, that PC couldn't seem to then resolve external DNS. If I forced it to WAN1, it would work fine. If I force the DHCP Server to give out external DNS servers to the local clients, it seems to resolve the problem but is slow.
Can you help me so that I can use the router as the DNS Server?
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24 Apr 2012 11:17 #72008
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Replied by nealuk on topic Re: Load Balancing and DNS
Good Morning, please could you mention your Draytek Model number ( e.g. 2830 ) and if at all possible the version of Firmware currently in use on the device. Many Thanks, Neal
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