On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 01:32:00PM +1100, Angus Lees wrote:
> \begin{Bernhard L�der}
> > How would I need to set up my DNS zone file in order to have the name
> > www.xyz.com.au resolved to multiple (2 in this case) IP addresses?
>
> just give two A records:
>
> www IN A 10.0.0.1
> A 10.0.0.2
>
> > Would this setup lead to, if www server 1 is down, that the browser would
> > look at the next IP address and requests the web pages from there?
>
> yes, however you would get a noticable delay before the browser gave
> up on the first address.
Does the browser actually give up on the first address and go to
the second. I didn't think it did. The above really only gives you
load-balancing. If you want to do redundancy have a look at something
like fake or heartbeat. They do an ip take over when they see a host has
gone down.
Or if you really want to go to extremes have a look at something
like ultramonkey.
All on freshe\meat
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