Hostnames in backend definition...

[david raistrick]

Oh.  I did actually have a suggestion, just forgot to give it.

Spin up yet another piece of reverse proxy software that -can- do dns 
lookups, and make that your backend on localhost, and point it to ELB.

I haven't tested this (that is, I dont know what software would handle DNS 
right - I have tested pound, haproxy, and varnish.  We use nginx, too, but 
only to localhost - maybe I can get a chance to try a dns update test).

I've heard good things about perlbal, despite it's name, particularly with 
regards to dynamic reconfiguration...so that's one possibility.
http://www.danga.com/perlbal/


If you do find one that works for you, let us know? :)




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