Jim Patterson wrote: > Is there a simple way to implement failover on linux. I have currently > got a Web Server which is being used to interface with a database. > Recently one of the guys here started to running some backups files to > this server via scp. A lot of backup files and it created DoS. Luckily > only one person noticed before we realized the source of the problem. > We have a backup web interface, we have DNS on linux, but I'm not > exactly sure of the approach to take to automatically bring a 2nd server > online, when the primary fails. Any ideas would be appreciated. > > -- During the last episode the server responded to pings, but was > very,very slow when serving pages. You may find this discussion recently on Fedora Devel illuminating... https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-February/msg00550.html Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | You will stop at nothing to reach your objective, @westexe.demon.co.uk | but only because your brakes are defective.
