[Pdns-users] fail over for web server

2007-08-15 Thread Jean Chiappini
Hello, I setup a pdns with approximately 90 domains. For all domains we have two web servers. Now, if a web server is down, 50% of the request failed because the web server is not available due to down time. I read in the documentation that it is possible to make fail over with pdns, but I don't

Re: [Pdns-users] fail over for web server

2007-08-15 Thread Kenneth Marshall
Jean, One typical way to implement this is to use Nagios to monitor your web servers. Then if one goes offline, issue the appropriate update to the PDNS database. Ken On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 01:43:28PM +0200, Jean Chiappini wrote: Hello, I setup a pdns with approximately 90 domains. For all

Re: [Pdns-users] fail over for web server

2007-08-15 Thread Jean Chiappini
Thank you for your response. Yes it is one possiblity, we use zabbix, but I prefered a mechanism based on pdns directly... Regards Jean Kenneth Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/15/07 3:24 PM Jean, One typical way to implement this is to use Nagios to monitor your web servers. Then if one goes

RE: [Pdns-users] fail over for web server

2007-08-15 Thread Darren Gamble
Good day, You will not be able to implement this with just pdns. There is no way for the DNS server to know which servers are online or offline on its own. The failover you read about is likely that for the DNS server itself. As Kenneth noted, if you have any tools that can identify the