Excerpts from Hank Knight's message of 2013-11-06 19:27:56 +0100: > I would like to distribute a CouchDB database on a minimum of 3 > servers for the purpose of redundancy. > > An attachment could be accessed like this: > > http://cdb1.example.com/abc/xyz/image.jpg > http://cdb2.example.com/abc/xyz/image.jpg > http://cdb3.example.com/abc/xyz/image.jpg > > Is it possible to access the database from a single domain name that > would automatically resolve to an instance that is running? > > For example if the server running on of the instances was experiencing > a power outage it should automatically resolve to an instance that > works. > > If so, where can I find documentation about how to do this?
This really should be the role of SRV records [0], but you'd need to ask http clients to look out for a _http._tcp record. In the meanwhile, the standard solution is a frontend proxy like HAProxy. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record -- Matthieu Rakotojaona
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