From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 25 20:27:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA03309 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:27:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA03297 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:27:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA28610; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:27:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:27:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Marco Masotti cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Web fault folerance through DNS Round Robin and Ip alias In-Reply-To: <34F42AF9.167EB0E7@mclink.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Marco Masotti wrote: > I would like to provide a web service with a a sort of "fault > tolerance", using DNS round robin and IP alias technique. > > My question is: > --------------- > Is anywhere available a ready set of scripts that can do the simple > job I want? Who has the DNS server? You'd want to do this from the DNS server and have it ping both; when one quit, swap in a new zone file, bump the serial number, kill -HUP named, and maybe send a page or some other notification that one of the servers went belly-up. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message