Hi, We currently have one DMZ relay set with the public name using the setting _BES_Client_Relay_NameOverride.
If we wanted to point that DNS name towards a loadbalancer that split it out via DNS and if we removed the _besclient_relay_nameoverride on the one DMZ server and had two DMZ servers that the load balancer split the traffic would it work?
You’d still want to override at least one relay to publish the public DNS name, so it shows up in the clients relays.dat file or clients would not attempt connecting to it. Alternatively you could specify the public name in the FailoverRelayList client setting.
On the Public DNS, you’d register that name to the address of your load balancer.
Otherwise yes that should work. You’d also want your appliance to be set in “sticky” mode so a given client always ends up on a given relay rather than bouncing between them, for efficiency. So a client doesn’t request a download file from one relay, and then bounce to the other relay that hasn’t cached the download.
Would there be an issue though if a client went to the relay that wasn’t publishing the DNS name? Or could two different relays publish the same DNS name?
No, the client won’t care if the relay is publishing a different name compared to what the client thinks the relays name should be.