Search Again: virtual hosting and secondary server From: XINCLXquickdns-talk@txinfinet.com (quickdns-ta Date: Thursday, October 21, 1999 Time: 5:50:00 pm Hi Eric, Question about virtual hosting and using a backup server with load balancing with QDNS responder. I have two identical web servers, one of which gets the main web traffic and the other of which is used for database stuff and as backup for server 1. I have QDNS set up to route the traffic from the first machine to the second in the event the first goes down. It's been working fine. I also had been using HomeDoor for many years for my virtual hosting. I just upgraded Webstar on server 1 from 2.1.1 to W*4 , and have set it up with direct IP multihoming (hooray, no more www2.domain.com/domain/ !). Server 2 will be upgraded in the near future. Except... how do I make it work on the second server? Those secondary IPs are live on server 1, so I certainly can't put them on server 2 also. Do I do server 1 with IP routing and server 2 (and any later additions) with hostname routing? How do I set up QDNS to handle this best? Do I need to set up load balancing for EACH of the secondary IPs? I figure I'll leave homedoor set up for use with server 2 should server1 go down, until I get that machine upgraded too. (I have the IPs to spare for now...). Thanks BC -- Bill Christensen billc@greenbuilder.com ------------------------------------------------------------ Green Real Estate: http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/ Sustainable Bldg Bookstore: http://www.greenbuilder.com/bookstore/ Green Bldg Professionals: http://www.greenbuilder.com/directory/ Sustainable Bldg Calendar: http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/

Messages In This Thread: virtual hosting and secondary server by XINCLXquickdns-talk@txinfinet.com (quickdns-ta on Oct 21, 1999 at 5:50:00 pm Re: virtual hosting and secondary server by Men & Mice Support on Oct 24, 1999 at 9:43:00 am