Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 16:52:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@stealthgeeks.net> To: Bert Driehuis <driehuis@playbeing.org> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Cluster Solution for FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104061651430.55978-100000@rockstar.stealthgeeks.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.21.0104070122180.10470-100000@c1111.nl.compuware.com>
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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
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