#hoststated

Some years ago I was looking for a solution to run OpenBSD as a fully-featured load balancer. It was bothering me for a long time that I had to run some systems coupled to the Alteons, F5s, Linux virtual servers, or even Ciscos of the world. I worked with Pierre-Ives Ritschard on „hoststated“, a health-checking server load balancer for OpenBSD. The initial hoststated was amazing, but had a very limited set of features. I rewrote large parts of it, added support for Layer 7 application layer relaying and finally renamed it to „relayd“ (the linked article still uses the old name).