On 8/31/05, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > I'm curious about how others in the Fedora community are > doing DNS > > failover. Specifically I have two sites, one primary > (in a large city) > > and one secondary (out in the middle of nowhere). The > idea is that we'd > > host DNS out of the secondary site to use the web > servers in the primary > > site. > > > > My question is how are people handling outages at the > main site. If the > > primary site burns down or all the servers get stolen or > something, is > > my only option a manual of the configs to point from one > to the other? > > > > > > Please don't post HTML to the list, and this doesn't even come close to > what I'm looking to do. I know how master and slave DNS works, I'm less > concerned about the actual DNS server and more concerned about where the > DNS address is pointing to. > Are you looking at how to fail over your entire site? As in www.company.com serves up a the IP address for the backup site when the primary site is down? If so then I don't know of an answer that dosen't include a real short TTL and reconfiguring your secondary DNS server as the primary... -- Leonard Isham, CISSP Ostendo non ostento.
