From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 6 16:52:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rockstar.stealthgeeks.net (rockstar.stealthgeeks.net [216.233.200.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5156837B423 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 16:52:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrick@rockstar.stealthgeeks.net) Received: (qmail 55980 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Apr 2001 23:52:27 -0000 Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 16:52:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Patrick Greenwell To: Bert Driehuis Cc: Subject: Re: Cluster Solution for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Bert Driehuis wrote: > On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > > > The quick and dirty thing to do is simply setup a DNS round robin > > for the domain name used to access the servers. > [snip] > > That leaves just dealing with downed servers. > > As an alternative (or supplement) to round robin DNS, one could consider > IP takeover. Web servers are paired, and if one detects the other to go > down, it assigns the other IP address as a secondary of its own. I'm not > aware of ready made daemons for FreeBSD that do this, but finding out > and writing one if necessary is on my to do list (sigh -- so is getting > Cricket 1.0.3 out the door and rewriting the OS interface of net-snmp > :-) VRRPD version 0.2 ported to FreeBSD: ftp://ftp.dev.express.ru/pub/FreeBSD/utils/vrrpd.tgz /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Patrick Greenwell Earth is a single point of failure. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message