Install & Configure for Success: Free Load Balancing DNS & UDP with LoadMaster 🚀

Hi!

When I was looking into HA with haproxy I stumble up on LoadMaster from Progress, yes they bought Kemp company in 2021. I wanted to create a almost free soloution for ntp, dns services on the network and HAproxy can not to udp (what I know). Today we are gonna test the free version from Progress. There is some limitation if you compare it to the paid ones, I wonder why. Not everything nice is free. For this to work you need to create account on progress site.

We start with the short list that we are gonna do today.

Download OVA
Install
Config
Test

We start to download the OVA from https://freeloadbalancer.com/

Deploy the OVA to your choosing of virtulization plattform. When this OVA is deployed start it and it look like ths:

Set the IP, Defaultgateway and DNS

Then it is time to get this free version a license

Get a webbrowser and put in https://ipadress of appliance and press agree.

Fill in you account

Then you need to make a choice if you wanna pay or do the free version. Press Continue

Your will see this if the license is ok

Set the password for the appliance

After this you you to enter the new password to login to the applince then you will see this screen

There is a lot of stuff to go thru. Here is the expanded view of the meny

Setup the appliance and configure DNS proxy

Time to setup DNS as a service for this. So you only have to point to 1 ip address on the network but you will have multiple DNS serv er behind the proxy.