K Sambaiah wrote: >>>when b goes down due to some prob then i want dns to >>>point www.upen.com to 'a' >>>how do i achieve this???? >>> >>> >>> >>Your /etc/hosts should look something like: >> >><a-ip> a.upen.com a >><b-ip> b.upen.com b >> >>Also /etc/resolv.conf should have entries: >> >>nameserver <b-ip> >>nameserver <a-ip> >> >> >> > > This will not solve the problem. If both a-ip and b-ip are up then > resolver pickup randomly. If a-ip is up then still resolver may > pickup a-ip and say the site is not reachable. > >sam > >
This concept will be applicable only if you want geographical load balancing. Try a product like F5 3DNS(www.f5.com), or Resonate Global Dispatch(www.resonate.com) At the time of writing this I do not know any open source product **But If you have your two or more machine locally on a single network then it will adivisable to use lvs *** It is only for local loadbalancing, It is the best of best available for open source people(www.linuxvirtualserver.org) -Jujubs ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
