[ILUG] Load Balancing and clustering

[AJ McKee]

Hi all,

Hope everyone is well.

OK I was wondering what are the alternative to round robin DNS as a method of 
load balancing a web server. I have done a nice google and the results all 
seem to be indicating a third party "box".

However is there any open source or method of configuring linux to act as a 
cluster  management server and hece forward all request between various 
machines with different operating systems but all running web servers?

Thanks in advance
Aj