On 3/12/08, Chris Bagnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings list, > > Has anyone used pfSense to redirect traffic away from a server in the event > of its death? For example, a location might have a phone server on-site, but > that's then backed up by a server hosted in a datacentre remotely.
Yes, our load balancer will do this. > It'd be very useful to be able to have an IP on the pfSense which usually > goes to the local server, but if it's unavailable goes to the remote server. > > If that's not possible, then is it possible to "poison" the DNS, so to > speak? i.e. create a DNS entry that responds with the local IP whilst that > server's alive, but that reverts to the offsite server when the local server > is offline? This is also possible with the DNS Server in packages. Have fun! Scott --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
