Potential solutions are listed below. There others as well. Note, some of the below give you much more than just DNS failover thus all features may note be applicable. enjoy-bk
F5 3DNS http://www.f5.com/f5products/3dns/ Alteon Content Director Radware http://www.radware.com/content/products/link.htm Array Networks http://www.clickarray.com/products.htm In house BGP solution: http://www.netaxs.com/~freedman/bgp/bgp.html Focused in explaining BGP http://info.connect.com.au/docs/routing/general/multi-faq.shtml FAQ on Multi-Homing and BGP -----Original Message----- From: Ed Esgro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:19 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: DNS and DR To answer your question, no DNS can not automatically re-direct based on availability. You can manually make the change in DNS but that isn't what you are looking for at 3 O'clock in the morning. I feel your pain. Curious about a solution for this scenario. -----Original Message----- From: Morgan, Joshua [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 12:16 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: DNS and DR How do you Create a Fail Safe Solution for this Scenario Primary Web Site A hosts your companies E-commerce site. IP 10-10.10.10 (New York) Secondary Web Site A (Mirror of Primary Web Site A) IP 192.168.1.1 (Dallas) Primary Web Site A Fails Is there a way to Have DNS automatically route users to Secondary Web Site A seamlessly Joshua Morgan PROFITLAB Network Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] "One is glad to be of service " --Robin Williams (Bicentennial Man)-- ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
