System | Remote Services

POSTED ON 13 March, 2020

The Remote Services section manages some external services needed for the load balancer system like DNS to in order to be able to resolve network names and NTP to have the system clock synchronized and the Proxy service, which allows the load balancer to use an external proxy for internal services.

Every change in this section has to be applied clicking on the UPDATE button.

DNS service

The Domain Name System service is used to resolve domains name to obtain their network address. Servers configured for DNS resolution will be stored in the system file /etc/resolv.conf.

Primary Server. The IP address of the primary name server. The default value will be 8.8.8.8.
Secondary Server. The IP address of the secondary name server. This value is optional and it is blank by default.

NTP service

This service is used to synchronize the load balancer system date and time clock.

NTP Server. The server IP address or domain name which the load balancer connects to in order to synchronize the system date and time. The default value will be pool.ntp.org.

Proxy Service

This service is intended to allow the load balancer to access the Internet through a remote proxy, some services like updates use this option if configured.

HTTP Proxy. If you want to use an HTTP proxy for HTTP requests, define the full URL of an HTTP proxy, i.e. http://myproxy:80.
Primary Server. If you want to use an HTTPS proxy for HTTPS requests, define the full URL of an HTTPS proxy, i.e. http://myproxy:443.

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