This is Pen, a load balancer for udp and tcp based protocols such as
dns, http or smtp. It allows several servers to appear as one to the
outside and automatically detects servers that are down and distributes
clients among the available servers. This gives high availability and
scalable performance.

Features

  • Geoip filtering
  • TCP load balancing
  • UDP load balancing
  • IPv4
  • IPv6
  • Local sockets
  • SSL
  • Direct server return
  • Transparent reverse proxy

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License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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Operating Systems

BSD, Cygwin, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Windows

Intended Audience

Information Technology

User Interface

Non-interactive (Daemon)

Programming Language

C

Related Categories

C Networking Software, C Clustering Software, C Load Balancers

Registered

2014-12-18