Re: Failover

I belive this is the job of a load balancer and not something that can be done in dns. DNS has no way of following the resulting answer ip or host, let alone knowing what protocol to follow on and how to determine what ones definition of up is. This type if check could be done in a basic

RE: Failover

, April 27, 2009 10:00 AM To: me...@cyberia.net.sa; bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: RE: Failover This is not the DNS job to check at the web service availability. You could make an external script that is testing for the service availibility and change the dns accordingly, like

Re: Failover

In article gt3l6f$17m...@sf1.isc.org, philippe.simo...@swisscom.com wrote: This is not the DNS job to check at the web service availability. You could make an external script that is testing for the service availibil= ity and change the dns accordingly, like (...) : web1 active ?

Re: Failover

The Best - use carp (VRRP) protocol for it or nginx proxy server. Or you can use dynamic update for zone: ping -c 5 your.host || nsupdate ... Mohammed Ejaz wrote: Hi all, Can it be possible through the bind, www records should work as failover, I mean during the primary record