DNS Load Balancer

• Click DNS Management service on the Console home page.

• Select Manage > DNS Load Balancer Management > Geo-Location Sets in the primary navigation menu located on the left side of the page.

• Select Add Geo-Location Set. Enter a name in the Name field in the metadata section. Optionally, set labels and add a description.

Configure the Geolocation Label Selector as per the following guidelines:

• Select Global Geolocation to include all predefined Geolocations. This is also populated by default and will include any location.

• Select Geolocation Selector to group locations using a selector expression. Select Add Label in the Selector Expression field and do the following:

  • Select a key from the drop-down for the Select Key field.
  • Choose an expression from the drop-down for the Selector Operator field.
  • Start typing a value in the Assign Values box. Select a value from the drop-down.

Note: To match several countries or cities, do the following:

• Select the IN operator.
• Select the first country or city of your choice and clear the search.
• Find the second country or city of your choice and select it.
• Repeat for the other countries or cities.
• Select Apply.

• Click Save and Exit.

• Select Manage > DNS Load Balancer Management > DNS Load Balancer Health Checks in the DNS management service page.

• Select Add DNS Load Balancer Health Check.

• Enter a name in the Name field in the metadata section.

• Optionally, set labels and add a description for the health check.

Select an option from the drop-down for Health Check Type and configure as per the following guidelines:

• In case of HTTP or HTTPS or TCP or UDP health check choice, do the following:

  • Enter a value for the Send String field to send this string in the request to the target.

  • Enter a value for the Receive String field to receive this string in the response from the target. This response indicates that the member is healthy.

  • Enter a value for the Health Check Port to set the port for performing health checks. You can also use the Common Values option and select from a predefined list of ports.

  • Select Save and Exit.

• In case of ICMP health check choice, select the ICMP health check and select Save and Exit.

This example creates HTTP health check.

• Select Manage > DNS Load Balancer Management > DNS Load Balancer Pools in the DNS management service page.

• Select Add DNS Load Balancer Pool.

• Enter a name in the Name field in the metadata section.

• Optionally, set labels and add a description for your pool.

• Select an option for the Pool Type field and use Add Item button to open pool member configuration page.

• Enter an IP address in the Public IP field.

• Enter a name for this pool.

• Enter values for the Load Balancing Ratio and Load Balancing Priority fields. The values 1 and 10 are populated by default for these fields respectively.

Note: The ratio and priority determine how the load balancing happens when the load balancing mode is based on the ratio and priority. The mode is set in subsequent steps.

• Select Apply.

Note: You can use Add Item button to add more than one member.

• Select Enable Health Check for the DNS Load Balancer Health Check field.

• Select a health check object from the drop-down of the Enable Health Check field. You can also use the Add Item option in the drop-down to create a new health check object and apply to pool type settings.

Note: The healcheck is disabled by default and in this mode, all pool members are assumed to be healthy.

• Optionally, enter a value for the Maximum Answers field to set the maximum number of resource records included in the responses.

• Select a choice from the drop-down for the Load Balancing Mode field as per the following guidelines:

  • Select Round-Robin to enable equal distribution of load among the pool members.
  • Select Ratio-Member to distribute requests based on the ratio set to pool members.
  • Select Statc-Persist to distribute requests persistently to specific members. Using this, when a request is answered by a member, subsequent such requests are persistently forwarded to that member.
  • Select Priority to distribute requests based on the priority assigned to pool members. Lower number for the priority field for a member means higher priority for that member.

• Select a Time-To-Live (TTL) choice for the TTL fied as per the following guidelines:

  • Select Use RRSet TTL to use the TTL value set in the load balancer record associated with this pool.
  • Select TTL to enforce a custom TTL and enter a value in seconds in the TTL(s) field. It is recommended you use a lower value for this setting.

Select Save and Exit to complete creating the pool.

• Select Manage > DNS Load Balancer Management > DNS Load Balancers in the DNS management service page.

• Select Add DNS Load Balancer.

• Enter a name in the Name field in the metadata section.

• Optionally, set labels and add a description for your load balancer.

• Select an option for the Record Type field.

• Select Configure for the Load Balancing Rules field to open the load balancing rules page and use the Add Item button on the page to start adding a rule.

• Select an option for the Geo Location Selection and configure as per the following guidelines:

  • Select Geo Locations by label selector and Select Add Label in the Selector Expression field. Select a key from the drop-down for the Select Key field, choose an expression from the drop-down for the Selector Operator field. Start typing a value in the Assign Values box and select a value from the drop-down.
  • Select Geo Location Set selector and select a Geo-Location set from the drop-down of the selector field. You can also use the Add Item button to create a new Geo-Location set and apply it to the rule.

• Select Use DNS Load Balancer pool for the Action field and select a pool from the drop-down. You can also use the Add Item button to create a new pool and apply it to the rule.

• Optionally, enter a Score for this rule. When a number of rules match a specific query, rule with the highest score is used to process the query.

• Select Apply to add the rule to the list of rules.

Note: You can use Add Item button to add more than one rule.

• Select Apply to add rules to the load balancer configuration.

Select an option for the Response Cache Parameters Choice and configure as per the following guidelines:

• Select Disable Response Cache to disable caching of response.

• Select Default Response Cache Parameters to apply default settings for response caching.

• Select Response Cache Parameters to apply custom caching and do the following:

  • Enter a value for Length of IPv4 CIDR masks to group IPv4 clients into subnets.
  • Enter a value for Length of IPv6 CIDR masks to group IPv6 clients into subnets.
  • Enter a value for TTL(s) to set TTL value for response cache. The cache gets cleared and responses are recomputed after the expiry of TTL.

Select Save and Exit to complete creating the pool.

• Select DNS Management option in the primary navigation menu located on the left side of the page.

• Select ... > Manage Configuration for your zone object among the list of displayed zones.

• Select Edit Configuration located on the top right in the manage configuration page.

• Go to Resource Record Sets section and click Add Item. The resource record sets configuration form opens.

• Enter a value for the Time to live field.

• Select DNS Load Balancer for the Record Set field, enter your record name in the Record Name field, and set the fields as per your record type selection.

• Select a DNS load balancer from the drop-down for the DNS Load Balancer Record field. You can also use the Add Item button to create a new load balancer and apply.

• Select Apply to add the load balancer record to the zone configuration.

• Select Save and Exit in the main zone configuration form to save changes to the zone configuration.