Re: Does perl have Failover with Open Source Web Platforms?

2003-03-15 Thread Christian Brink
If a 30 second delay is acceptable, even round robin dns forms a type of failover. If the first ip fails, the browser tries the second, etc. This is incorrect. IE does support some aliveness checking (http://www.geocities.com/tufansevim/dnsroundrobin.html) and will cycle through A records till

Does perl have Failover with Open Source Web Platforms?

2003-03-13 Thread Richard Heintze
My client is partial to perl so I installed mod_perl on Apache HTTPD on his windows servers. Now, however, he wants to price a linux cluster with raid to replace his windows servers. He needs declarative role based authorization and authentication for his web site -- and maybe fault tolerance

Re: Does perl have Failover with Open Source Web Platforms?

2003-03-13 Thread Jay Thorne
On March 13, 2003 11:48 am, Richard Heintze wrote: My client is partial to perl so I installed mod_perl on Apache HTTPD on his windows servers. Now, however, he wants to price a linux cluster with raid to replace his windows servers. He needs declarative role based authorization and

Re: Does perl have Failover with Open Source Web Platforms?

2003-03-13 Thread Perrin Harkins
Richard Heintze wrote: He needs declarative role based authorization and authentication for his web site -- and maybe fault tolerance too depending on the price of the hardware for a linux server. These are two separate things. Authen/Authz can be implemented any way you like on mod_perl. It