[distcache-users] how to avoid dc_server being a spof?

[Mário B. <mar...@lo...>]

Hi,

Disclaimer:
I am a noob wrt distcache + mod_ssl on apache (even though I have been a 
sysadmin for some years now), and the following question comes from 
ignorance. Please kick me in the general direction of the appropriate 
documentation.

The context:
I have just had to setup a small ssl-protected site across two 
load-balanced webservers, and came across distcache as the readily 
available method (on CentOS 5.x) of sharing the ssl session cache across 
multiple webservers.
I have perused the most immediate documentation on the subject of having 
a few dc_client's connecting to a "backend" dc_server, but it was not 
obvious to me how I could, for instance, have the dc_client's 
automatically connect to a second dc_server in case of (hard) failure on 
the primary.

The questions:
Is this at all possible to do? If it is, by which method:
. multiple -server arguments to the dc_client binary?
. multiple SSLSessionCache directives on the httpd config?
. some sort of HA / loadbalancer tool?

Thanks in advance,
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Mário Barbosa <mar...@lo...>
SysAdmin @ log
log <www.log.pt>
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