[newbie] Hi Fellow-Penguin Newbies! Anyone know anything about Primary and Second Servers?

[Beckycould]

When I disconnect my Primary Server from service- I want the Secondary
server to automatically take over providing the websites I am Hosting.

My question is:

Does MY  DNS Info at the Open SRS Database tell the world to look at my
Primary IP and if it is "down"  will traffic automatically look for my
Secondary IP?

I Can type in my Secondary IP and pull up the index.html of my main website.
I Cannot type in a URL and see any sites come up FROM  my Secondary. (when
the Primary is out of service)

Presently The Only way "I know Of" to have the Secondary Server take over AS
the Primary is to change the DNS and IP using LINUXCONF and making the
Secondary BECOME the Primary.


I welcome all help I can get
Thank You,
Becky

Re: [newbie] Hi Fellow-Penguin Newbies! Anyone know anything about Primary and Second Servers?

[Michael R. Batchelor]

When I disconnect my Primary Server from service- I want the Secondary
server to automatically take over providing the websites I am Hosting.

My question is:

Does MY  DNS Info at the Open SRS Database tell the world to look at my
Primary IP and if it is "down"  will traffic automatically look for my
Secondary IP?


You misunderstand what the primary and secondary DNS server's jobs are.
Those machines are the traffic cops to tell the world where your various
hosts are (IP address). If the primary DNS server is down, then the
secondary server still tells everybody where your hosts are.

What you're trying to do is get your standby web server (not DNS server)
to take over the role of servicing the http requests. That's possible to
do, and one way is how you described it. There are also tools that can
do it for you automatically, but I'm not readily familiar with them.

Grab a book on TCP/IP and get to know what DNS does. And remember to
keep the concepts of server="computer" and server="program that does a
job" seperated in your mind. For example, you might make your primary
DNS server the same physical box as your standby web server, etc.