No, I am not sure what to think about this. M
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 16:05 -0800, Martin, Jason H wrote: > Has there been any thought into having CFE do failover based on a given > name returning multiple IP addresses? Lets say www.yahoo.com was > hosting my CFE server: > > # host www.yahoo.com > www.yahoo.com is an alias for www.yahoo.akadns.net. > www.yahoo.akadns.net has address 68.142.197.85 > www.yahoo.akadns.net has address 68.142.197.64 > www.yahoo.akadns.net has address 68.142.197.65 > www.yahoo.akadns.net has address 68.142.197.67 > www.yahoo.akadns.net has address 68.142.197.68 > www.yahoo.akadns.net has address 68.142.197.76 > www.yahoo.akadns.net has address 68.142.197.80 > www.yahoo.akadns.net has address 68.142.197.83 > > Cfagent could iterate over the whole list trying to perform a copy, > instead of requiring the user to add a 'failover=' line (which is > therefore limited to just 2 potential sources). One could even expand on > that to have it randomly choose from the list or do some sort of check > (ie ping) to try them in some order. This would be very handy when one > has CFE clients on opposite ends of a 3-way WAN pipe with a CFE server > on each end. Clients would pick the best available server and fail over > to the next best on down until they get one that worked. > > I realize one can do this now in a basic form by determining the server > value based on the current subnet, but this limits one to only a 2-way > failover. Something more flexible would be handy. > > Thank you, > -Jason Martin > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
