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Date:      Sat, 8 Jul 2000 11:26:06 +0200
From:      "R.I.Pienaar" <rip@pinetec.co.za>
To:        Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>
Cc:        Jason Fesler <jfesler@gigo.com>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>, Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com>, Alan Batie <batie@rdrop.com>, isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: load balancing
Message-ID:  <20000708112606.G10253@pinetec.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <11591545084.20000707190001@buz.ch>; from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch on Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 07:00:01PM %2B0200
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007070948320.69269-100000@heaven.gigo.com> <11591545084.20000707190001@buz.ch>

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> What if it's pingable, but ssh failed? And how do you solve the
> problems of needing root access to kill the alias? I don't want to
> supply an attacker with the root passwords for the another box if he
> cracks one of a pair... RSA authentication isn't better for that
> matter.

you can have it behind a nat box, that monitors the services, the moment
anything stop working, you just rewrite its real ip to another box and
everything fails over.

this ofcource leave you with a nat box again to failover.


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