From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Dec 16 14:20:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from postoffice.aims.com.au (eth0.lnk.aims.com.au [203.31.73.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4481637B41C for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 14:20:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from postoffice.aims.com.au (nts-ts1.aims.private [192.168.10.2]) by postoffice.aims.com.au with ESMTP id fBGMK7X13292 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:20:07 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from chris@aims.com.au) Received: from ntsts1 by aims.com.au with SMTP (MDaemon.v3.5.3.R) for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:19:26 +1100 Reply-To: From: "Chris Knight" To: Cc: Subject: RE: Using DNAT and DNS round-robin Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:19:24 +1100 Message-ID: <020c01c1867f$b885ce70$020aa8c0@aims.private> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <3C1C270F.164076BA@nobaloney.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Importance: Normal X-Return-Path: chris@aims.com.au X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Howdy, > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jeff Lasman > Sent: Sunday, 16 December 2001 15:46 > To: Dmitry Koltsov; freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Using DNAT and DNS round-robin > > [snip] > And how about failure rollover? We'd like to offer clients > geographically dispersed hosting; there's a call for it since > September 11th showed everyone of the hazards of hosting at > only one location. > But I don't think we can rely on short TTL; too many large > ISPs seem to ignore it . > > Is there a way to handle high-availability strictly in DNS? > You might want to look at Eddieware. It's in the ports tree - www/eddie. It contains a load-balancing DNS engine, plus a swag of other tools to create highly available sites with geopgraphic distribution of servers in mind. Also in the ports tree is net/dns_balance. This may also meet your needs. > Thanks. > > Jeff Regards, Chris Knight Systems Administrator AIMS Independent Computer Professionals Tel: +61 3 6334 6664 Fax: +61 3 6331 7032 Mob: +61 419 528 795 Web: http://www.aims.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message