Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 02:55:27 +0100 From: Manar Hussain <manar@ivision.co.uk> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Failover question/idea/hint Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20000419025527.019cbe40@stingray.ivision.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <38FC2CFB.102E40D7@polytechnic.edu.na> References: <200004171625.MAA39745@mail.wanlogistics.net> <44305.956004916@verdi.nethelp.no>
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How about decently low DNS cache times and your failover consisting of modifying the DNS to point to the fallback web server if needed. I'm guessing that an hours downtime would not be too bad a thing to contemplate in case of so serious a situation? I.e. a poor man's variant of something like F5's 3DNS (http://www.f5.com/3dns/). Of course you could actually use the 3DNS product. Round robin DNS sounds like a really bad plan as that norm would be for www.yoursite.com to point at both sites and thus your dev site is also live. Manar -- Manar Hussain, Director Email: manar@ivision.co.uk Mobile: (07971) 277821 Internet Vision Tel: 0171 589 4500 60 Albert Court Fax: 0171 589 4522 Prince Consort Road info@ivision.co.uk London. SW7 2BE http://www.ivision.co.uk/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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