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Date:      Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:27:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Marco Masotti <masotti@mclink.it>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Web fault folerance through DNS Round Robin and Ip alias
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980225202557.28338s-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <34F42AF9.167EB0E7@mclink.it>

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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



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