> Does anyone know if there is a "simple" way to mirror two servers
> without spending $ on hardware? I'm NOT talking about mirroring the
> OS and the files, I'm talking about sending http requests to a second
> server if the first server is down/un-reachable. This is sometimes
> referred to as
"Aaron Burke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> To my knowlege, yes. Lets say you had a server called www.
> You would just give it two addresses in your domain configuration
> files.
>
> www IN CNAME 12.34.56.78
> www IN CNAME 9.10.11.12
> www IN CNAME 65.4.3.21
That shou
> "Aaron Burke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > To my knowlege, yes. Lets say you had a server called www.
> > You would just give it two addresses in your domain configuration
> > files.
> >
> > www IN CNAME 12.34.56.78
> > www IN CNAME 9.10.11.12
> > www IN CNAME 65.4.3.2
The only problem with using DNS round robin like this, is that, in this
scenario when 1 server is down, on average 1 in 3 requests to the web server
will fail. But as previous posters have commented DNS should respond with the
same 3 addresses, but it will rotate the order each time, in the version
Jonas Fornander wrote:
Does anyone know if there is a "simple" way to mirror two servers
without spending $ on hardware? I'm NOT talking about mirroring the
OS and the files, I'm talking about sending http requests to a second
server if the first server is down/un-reachable. This is sometimes
r
>
> The only problem with using DNS round robin like this, is
> that, in this scenario when 1 server is down, on average 1 in
> 3 requests to the web server will fail. But as previous
> posters have commented DNS should respond with the same 3
> addresses, but it will rotate the order each tim
> www IN CNAME 12.34.56.78
> www IN CNAME 9.10.11.12
> www IN CNAME 65.4.3.21
Those should be 'A's. And you propably want a *short* livetime.
> The DNS standard will give out a different address for every
This is a particular feature of ICS (www.isc.org) their BIND na
