Configuring Discussion and Announcement Connections to point to cluster

Hello,
I'm wondering how I'm supposed to configure my connection to the Discussion server for my Portal sites.
I don't know if I'm suppose to point to the first node of the discussion server on the portal server 1 and to the second node of the discussion server on the portal server 2 ?
Or should I configure my discussions server URL to point to the OHS that will then map to the correct server ? (I don't like this because it means going from lan to dmz to lan again ...)
How do you configure it?
Thanks !
Emilien

Emilien,
When you configure your environment for high availability, you will often also add a load balancer in front of the Oracle HTTP Server (OHS)
You should point to that load balancer, which in turn points to one or more OHS's, which in turn point to one or more managed servers, running your discussion app.
If you do not use a load balancer, and have only one OHS in front of multiple managed servers, point to the one OHS.
Kind regards,
Rob

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