Prepare For Attack - Load Balanced Systems
July 13th, 2008 | by admin |One of the most common applications for load balancing is to provide a single internet service for many servers, often referred to as a server farm. Typically, these load balanced systems include popular websites, large internet relay chat networks, high-bandwidth file transfer protocol sites, NNTP servers and DNS servers.
For internet services, the load balancer is usually a software program. The load balancer typically forwards the request to one of the servers and in turn, the server replies back to the load balancer. This seems a bit complicated but these steps prevent clients from contacting the server directly thus adding a level of security by hiding the networks internal structure and averting any attacks made on the network itself.
