On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Gary Gatten <ggat...@waddell.com> wrote: > > You certainly don't "need" BGP for this, the DNS thing will work, but will be > a bit kludgy and certainly not as ... "responsive" to failures - a la query > caching, TTL's and what not. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org > <owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org> > To: Ray Still <rstil...@gmail.com> > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Mon Oct 26 12:50:56 2009 > Subject: Re: bind configuration issues > > On Oct 26, 2009, at 10:03 AM, Ray Still wrote: > > Hello, > > I am adding a redundant Internet connection to my current hosting > > setup and > > I need to figure out how to set up the DNS to make this work. > > The two issues normally aren't related. > > If both connections are from the same provider, talk to them about > multilink PPP; if they are from different providers, you need to look > into multihoming and getting your own AS #. >
two different providers. > > > Current setup: > > freebsd 7.0 machine, one local IP address, runs web, mail, and name > > server. > > static ip address in router. > > I have two DNS servers registered, but they both point to the same ip > > address an the same machine. (Yes, I should have my fingers slapped.) > > > > Desired setup > > same machine, one local IP address, runs web, mail, and name server. > > different router (Linksys RV082) with 2 static ip address. > > In order to have redundancy, you need to have two real, separate > machines, each of which is running BIND, each of which is on a > separate routable IP. This is an orthogonal issue to setting up > multiple Internet connections. Yes, In an ideal world I would do this. The two machines would also be in separate buildings/cities/provinces/countries/planets (pick your level of paranoia) ;) However, reducing single points of failure is an improvement, even if I can't eliminate them. > > > How do I set up bind so that > > 1) bandwidth is shared between the two connections, > > and > > 2) if one goes down, the other keeps working. > > I had a few ideas, but they all seem to have flaws. > > You can't set up BIND to control multilink aggregation and failover; > that's not what it does. > > Regards, > -- freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > -Chuck > Thanks for the replies. Chuck, thanks for the keywords to search. Some of what I'm finding looks like a solution for companies a lot bigger than me, but I'll keep looking. Gary, can you give me any clues about how to do it with just DNS? Yes, I do realize that this leaves single points of failure, but at least they would be points that I could do something about if necessary. Thanks again, Ray > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > "This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient and may > contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If you are not > the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, use, > dissemination, disclosure or copying of this email and its attachments, if > any, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please > immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email from your > system." _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"