-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/22/07 18:14, Will Parkinson wrote: > I have a dedicated server at the moment (which is the one i want > mirrored), i have considered the solution below before, but does the dns > "load balance" to a server when it is down? i've been told that it > doesn't, but i haven't put it into practice yet. What i really need is > a service to check whether the main server is available, and if its not, > switch to the secondary. The solution below does take care of the data > redundancy problem though.
Heartbeat monitors are a dime a dozen. $ wajig show heartbeat-2 Package: heartbeat-2 Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 4504 Maintainer: Simon Horman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 2.0.7-2 Replaces: heartbeat, libpils0, libstonith0, stonith Provides: heartbeat, libpils0, libstonith0, stonith Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libcurl3 (>= 7.15.5-1), libgcrypt11 (>= 1.2.2), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgnutls13 (>= 1.4.0-0), libgpg-error0 (>= 1.4), libltdl3 (>= 1.5.2-2), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-5), libnet1 (>= 1.1.2-1), libopenipmi0, libpam0g (>= 0.76), libsensors3 (>= 1:2.10.1), libsnmp9 (>= 5.2.3), libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8c-1), libtasn1-3 (>= 0.3.4), libuuid1, libwrap0, libxml2 (>= 2.6.27), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), python, python-central (>= 0.5.8), iproute, adduser, iputils-ping, psmisc Recommends: sysklogd | syslog-ng | system-log-daemon, logrotate, iptables Conflicts: heartbeat, libpils0, libstonith0, stonith Filename: pool/main/h/heartbeat-2/heartbeat-2_2.0.7-2_i386.deb Size: 1362814 MD5sum: 8528217421a5d8836733fcfdd327e4a8 SHA1: a0f2677d256e0b6df00897b4994c751b7fabc4f5 SHA256: 6e49f5a6937e9046b4ef14640d6f79392da06f09a1dcc7bfb7378ba02c5609e0 Description: Subsystem for High-Availability Linux heartbeat is a basic heartbeat subsystem for Linux-HA which implements serial, UDP, and PPP/UDP heartbeats together with IP address takeover including a nice resource model including resource groups. . It currently supports a very sophisticated dependency model for n-node clusters. It is both extremely useful and quite stable at this point in time. Python-Version: current Tag: uitoolkit::ncurses -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFtWCHS9HxQb37XmcRAnPQAKCqrSRi6oM5zw2sWe+sCWwsE8bGtACg1c9p lUXRh3n7hPi1mW1X3pdqcCQ= =ayTm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]