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Date:      Sun, 29 Apr 2001 08:06:02 -0700
From:      "Kulraj Gurm (bosa.ca account)" <kulraj@bosa.ca>
To:        "Ken Bolingbroke" <hacker@bolingbroke.com>, "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Redundant Internet connections
Message-ID:  <002901c0d0bd$e8466de0$64c8a8c0@asknet.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104290057220.87921-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>

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> However, if ISP A dies on Wednesday, ISP B takes over the slack.  If ISP B
> dies on Friday, ISP A is handling things anyway.  True, there's the chance
> that both ISPs will die on the same day, but the likelihood of that is
> definitely much lower than the liklihood of being without access
> altogether if you have only ISP A.  It doesn't guarantee 100% uptime, but
> it does get a lot closer at much less expense than it would cost for a
> 99.95% SLA.

I am pondering taking a second T1 with a different telco for redundancy, and
your discussion has so far been interesting.

I am a little confused however; maybe just my lack of understanding, but all
your discussion on redundancy has been focussed on out bound traffic - where
I can conceptually see it working. But what are the DNS implications?

We have numerous clients; and many of them have numerous domains. I
generally assign an IP per client and virtual host as many sites as they
want on the single IP. This is all through one telco at the moment. When a
second telco enters the picture, and I get a different IP range assigned to
the new T1. When the first network is down - all hosted sites will still be
inaccessible.

What would be the solution to this scenario.

Regards,

Kulraj Gurm



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