[CentOS] BiND Failover

Hi list, I've two servers running the same ldap service. A is primary server and B is simply a mirror, and accounts from server A are constantly synchronized with B. Now I don't have a automatic failover solution, whenever server A goes down, I have to point the domain's A record to server B

Re: [CentOS] BiND Failover

Per Qvindesland wrote: Hi list, I've two servers running the same ldap service. A is primary server and B is simply a mirror, and accounts from server A are constantly synchronized with B. Now I don't have a automatic failover solution, whenever server A goes down, I have to point the

Re: [CentOS] BiND Failover

Hi, If it is a mission critical system, check out http://www.linux-ha.org/ I have that managing a cluster of servers for HA SQL. In your case you may get away with just using a floating IP. Have the DNS pointing to that. Then no matter what server the IP is on the DNS doesn't need to be

Re: [CentOS] BiND Failover

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Per Qvindesland p...@norhex.com wrote: I've two servers running the same ldap service. A is primary server and B is simply a mirror, and accounts from server A are constantly synchronized with B. Now I don't have a automatic failover solution, whenever server

Re: [CentOS] BiND Failover

Hi All Thanks for all your answers, I agree it would be better with heartbeat then to mock around with dns and a very slow update time. Regards Per Qvindesland On 2/20/09 2:08 PM, Tim Verhoeven tim.verhoeven...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Per Qvindesland p...@norhex.com

Re: [CentOS] BiND Failover

On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 15:36 +0100, Per Qvindesland wrote: Hi All Thanks for all your answers, I agree it would be better with heartbeat then to mock around with dns and a very slow update time. Regards Per Qvindesland Another benefit is that failover occurs much more quickly when using