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Re: Round robin DNS type of service



Brent Clark wrote:
> Hey all
> 
> If you look @ google
> 
> bclark@zion:~$ dig www.google.com +short
> www.l.google.com.
> 216.239.37.104    <---------------------------- This is First
> 216.239.37.99
> bclark@zion:~$ dig www.google.com +short
> www.l.google.com.
> 216.239.37.99
> 216.239.37.104    <---------------------------- Now its second
> bclark@zion:~$
> 
> This my question, I want to do the same OR
> 
> What I really want is:
> I want to purchase ANOTHER dedicated server and make it so that if on
> someone types in the browser www.eccotours.biz, obviously it will
> resolve to
> one of the IPs. BUT how will I handle if one of the machines is down.
> How can I get around this.
> Or will the client first try one IP, if on failure, try the next one.
> 
> Brent
> 
> 

What you want to do requires a front-end machine for load balancing, not
an additional IP/DNS setup.  You would tell it to proxy traffic to one
of two (or more) machines that are up and running.

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto

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