Re: Failover

2009-04-27 Thread Chris Thompson
On Apr 27 2009, Mohammed Ejaz wrote: Can it be possible through the bind, www records should work as failover, I mean during the primary record unavailable and then it should go for next www only, Pls. note that I don't want let they work as round robin function. 1. Primary www record pointing

Re: Failover

2009-04-27 Thread Dmitry Rybin
The Best - use carp (VRRP) protocol for it or nginx proxy server. Or you can use dynamic update for zone: ping -c 5 your.host || nsupdate ... Mohammed Ejaz wrote: > Hi all, > > > > Can it be possible through the bind, www records should work as > failover, I mean during the primary record un

Re: Failover

2009-04-27 Thread Sam Wilson
In article , wrote: > This is not the DNS job to check at the web service availability. > You could make an external script that is testing for the service availibil= > ity > and change the dns accordingly, like (...) : > > web1 active ? > yes : was it active at last test ? > y

RE: Failover

2009-04-27 Thread Mohammed Ejaz
, April 27, 2009 10:00 AM To: me...@cyberia.net.sa; bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: RE: Failover This is not the DNS job to check at the web service availability. You could make an external script that is testing for the service availibility and change the dns accordingly, like

RE: Failover

2009-04-27 Thread Philippe.Simonet
This is not the DNS job to check at the web service availability. You could make an external script that is testing for the service availibility and change the dns accordingly, like (...) : web1 active ? yes : was it active at last test ? yes : do nothing no : set www

Re: Failover

2009-04-26 Thread Scott Haneda
I belive this is the job of a load balancer and not something that can be done in dns. DNS has no way of following the resulting answer ip or host, let alone knowing what protocol to follow on and how to determine what ones definition of "up" is. This type if check could be done in a basi