********************************** JK> Maybe you can just use two A records in your dns.
JK> Both point to one server, and both servers keep an eye on the other with JK> hearthbeat, JK> As soon as one of the servers gets unresponsive the other claims the ip JK> as a secundary ip. JK> ifconfig eth0 add otherip. JK> // not forget to arp for it! JK> And as soon as the hearthbeat finds the other server to be back online, JK> it unsets the ip, and lets the other know that it can add the ip again. JK> Not so hard, just a couple of shell scripts afaik. JK> greets JK> Jan ********************************** This sounds pretty good, but the customer is running mysql with data changing all day long. That means that I would have two seperate db, one on each machine, without being able to merge/keep uptodate those dabatases :/ Best regards, Benjamin MALYNOVYTCH -- [email protected] mailing list
