On Aug 22, 2013, at 4:06 PM, Mike <ispbuil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13-08-22 01:39 AM, Manish Rane wrote: >> Well the main idea behind and have been struggling to configure for >> almost last one year is to have a open source alternative to DNS Based >> failover/System monitoring thus have inbound loadbalancer. > > Easy solution - > > have two nameservers / load balancers, ns1.yourdomain and > ns2.yourdomain, each returning their own IP in response to lookups. > > If one goes offline... users will never receive a reply from it with its > IP, and never go to it. > > problem with this solution?
This assumes that the machine going off-line is the only failure mode -- if the "service" (like http) on goes down, but named continues answering you will be hurting users. W > you need to manually update both domain > servers when you make changes, not just one. This may or may not be an > issue for you. > > > -- > Looking for (employment|contract) work in the > Internet industry, preferably working remotely. > Building / Supporting the net since 2400 baud was > the hot thing. Ask for a resume! ispbuil...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe > from this list > > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users > -- A. No Q. Is it sensible to top-post? _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users