From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Apr 18 18:54:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from stingray.ivision.co.uk (avengers.ivision.co.uk [212.25.224.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6937D37B621 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 18:54:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from manar@ivision.co.uk) Received: from [212.25.224.17] (helo=pretender2) by stingray.ivision.co.uk with smtp (Exim 2.04 #1) id 12hjhI-00077Z-00 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 02:54:32 +0100 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000419025527.019cbe40@stingray.ivision.co.uk> X-Sender: manarpop@stingray.ivision.co.uk X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 02:55:27 +0100 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: Manar Hussain Subject: Re: Failover question/idea/hint In-Reply-To: <38FC2CFB.102E40D7@polytechnic.edu.na> References: <200004171625.MAA39745@mail.wanlogistics.net> <44305.956004916@verdi.nethelp.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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