Table of Contents
Advertisement
ServerIronADX# show gslb dns detail
ZONE: gslb1.com
HOST: www:
(Global GSLB policy)
*
*
*
*
Smoothing mechanism for RTT measurements
A GSLB ServerIron ADX learns the Round Trip Time (RTT) information from the Site ServerIron ADXs
through the GSLB protocol and uses the information as a metric when comparing IP addresses. For
each RTT value reported by the Site ServerIron ADX, the GSLB ServerIron ADX calculates the
effective RTT value by adding 90% of the existing RTT value in the cache entry to 10% of the new
RTT sample to obtain the effective RTT value for that cache entry.
For example, assume Site ServerIron ADX 1.1.1.101 is periodically reporting the RTT for a client IP
1.1.1.42 to the GSLB. The first value that the Site ServerIron ADX reports to the GSLB ServerIron
ADX is 20ms. The GSLB ServerIron ADX stores this RTT in its cache (1.1.1.101, rtt = 20ms). When
the Site ServerIron ADX again reports RTT for 1.1.1.42, the GSLB ServerIron ADX uses the following
formula to calculate the new RTT value.
If the Site ServerIron ADX reports an RTT value of 40ms for 1.1.1.101, then effective RTT would be
This smoothing mechanism may not be effective in dealing with large variances in RTT
measurements. For example, if the Site ServerIron ADX reports just one very high value, for
example 1 second, then the RTT will be.
After this calculation, even if the Site ServerIron ADX continues to report 20ms, it will take some
time for the resulting RTT to come down to 20ms. This formula is not adaptive enough to deal with
transient spikes in RTT values.
ServerIron ADX Global Server Load Balancing Guide
53-1002437-01
1.1.1.22: dns real-ip ACTIVE ASIA
10.10.10.200: dns real-ip DOWN
1.1.1.76: dns v-ip
site: local, weight:
session util:
preference: 128
1.1.1.101: dns v-ip
Active Bindings: 1
site: local, weight:
session util:
preference: 128
The above output shows that the geographic location is Asia. The geographic location for
10.10.10.200 is still North America (N-AM) because it does not match the user-configured
geographic prefix.
effective RTT = 90 % of old RTT value + 10% of new RTT value
90% of 20ms + 10% of 40ms = 22ms
90% of 22ms + 10% of 1 sec = 119ms
Smoothing mechanism for RTT measurements
Flashback
delay
(x100us)
TCP
APP
5
N-AM
--
DOWN
ASIA
--
0, ServerIronADX: 1.1.1.102
0%, avail. sessions: 5999976
ACTIVE ASIA
0
0, ServerIronADX: 1.1.1.102
0%, avail. sessions: 5999976
DNS resp.
selection
counters
Count (%)
16
---
--
---
--
---
0
---
1
133
Advertisement
Table of Contents
