re: You are trying to use the wrong tools. Yes it is possible to kind of make this
work by using round-robin DNS, or DNS servers with really low TTLs that give out the
"current"
good address, but this is all a hack that will be unreliable.
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No, this is not what I am trying to do. I am not trying to use round robin
dns, and I am not interested in adjusting the TTL's, or worry about what the
current good address is.
I have had DSL outages as short as 5 minutes and as long as 6 months. I do
not want to go through all my machines eveyr time the network goes down
to change all the ip numbers, only to have the network up again 5 minutes
later on my faster line, only to switch everything back. i do not want to
wake up one morning to find out there was an outage that started 5 minutes
after i went to sleep. I have lost thousands of dollars in revenue per month
because of things like this. Bell Atlantic unplugs my lines, they take
months to fix it, etc. that's why i have *3* connections just for a small
number of sites in my home, which I pay a lot for.
All i want is what i described. I tried contacting my ISP's about routing
on their end. i either got no response, or they ask me what version of
windows i am running, or they say that linux doesn't work with their ISP,
etc. Working with the ISP is not getting me anywhere.
All I want to do is access any machine on my internal network from either
of my internet connections, and have the machines internal be able to
communicate with each other, and that is all. If someone knows hwo to do
this, please help me. I have tried iproute2 but it does not work. I have
recompiled my kernels a hundred times with every option on many machines
with many configurations for months and there is always something about the
setup that does not work. And I know that you guys know how to do this
because you are always talking about your huge networks with 5 internal
LAN's and 3 redundant connections and multipel firewalls, etc, but no one
has ever been able to say "you need this linux kernel, set your machines
up with the router here, the hub here, your www servers here, with these
machines running this software, with this configuration". so it doesn't
work, and no the online how-tos, the books at the store, usenet, the
sysadmins I know, etc are ever of much help.
Last year I was one of the only ones trying to figure this out, but there
is now a large number of people on the net asking the same question, and
not getting any answers.
If it can be done, then how?
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