From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 9 2:18:37 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EEC537B401 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 02:18:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mobile.webweaving.org (host066-064.kpn-gprs.nl [62.133.66.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C528043FBD for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 02:18:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dirkx@webweaving.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.webweaving.org (8.12.7/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h298cnaj000787; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 09:38:49 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 09:38:49 +0100 (CET) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik To: Aaron Burke Cc: Jonas Fornander , Subject: RE: Mirroring/load-balance two servers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > www IN CNAME 12.34.56.78 > www IN CNAME 9.10.11.12 > www IN CNAME 65.4.3.21 Those should be 'A's. And you propably want a *short* livetime. > The DNS standard will give out a different address for every This is a particular feature of ICS (www.isc.org) their BIND named distribution; not part of any standard. You propably also want to look at Dynamic DNS update or Secure Dynamic DNS update in conjuction with snmp or some other actiev probing; as to mask out non responding addresses within a few time-to-live intervals. Typical propbing rates are livetime/2 sort of rates. Dw To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message