Re: [SLUG] Re: DNS question - multiple www servers

[John Ferlito <johnf@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 01:32:00PM +1100, Angus Lees wrote:
> \begin{Bernhard Lüder}
> > How would I need to set up my DNS zone file in order to have the name
> > www.xyz.com.au resolved to multiple (2 in this case) IP addresses?
> 
> just give two A records:
> 
> www  IN	  A   10.0.0.1
> 	  A   10.0.0.2
> 
> > Would this setup lead to, if www server 1 is down, that the browser would
> > look at the next IP address and requests the web pages from there?
> 
> yes, however you would get a noticable delay before the browser gave
> up on the first address.

	Does the browser actually give up on the first address and go to
the second. I didn't think it did. The above really only gives you
load-balancing. If you want to do redundancy have a look at something
like fake or heartbeat. They do an ip take over when they see a host has
gone down. 

	Or if you really want to go to extremes have a look at something
like ultramonkey. 

	All on freshe\meat


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John

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