On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 05:21:21PM -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 08:04 +1000, Julian De Marchi wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Again, not sure of the term to search for on Google, so here is my question. > > > > My main website is www.jdcomputers.com.au with an ip of 203.79.115.45. If > > for some reason this goes down I would like the domain name to point to my > > "hot spare" web server (203.79.115.42). How would I accomplish this? > > DNS is the easiest way (publish both IPs in DNS). Otherwise you need a > front-end loadbalancer (which itself is subject to falling over). > Except that by default DNS will use a round-robin approach for multiple A records. So, 50% of the requests will go one server and the other 50% to the other server. Is that what you want? If not, you probably want something like fake and/or heartbeat. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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