Search Again: Intelligent Fault-Tolerant Serving From: Suzanne Swift Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 Time: 2:30:00 am I'm trying to figure out how to set up a back-up Web server. Is this called Intelligent Fault-Tolerant Serving or is this called Load Balancing? What is the difference? I've read some of the posts in this area, but I still don't understand how it is done. Is there a tutorial/step-by-step instructions that I can access somewhere? I have two domains and two IP# blocs. Let's call them domain1.com and domain2.com and 10.10.10.* and 20.20.20.*. My current name servers are at ns1.domain1.com (10.10.10.2) and ns2.domain1.com (10.10.10.3). I have two Web servers. Let's say their IPs are 10.10.10.10 and 20.20.20.10. I would like to set things up so that one server is the workhorse, handling most or all of the traffic when it is up. If the workhorse server (10.10.10.10) should suffer a catastrophe, however, then I would like client traffic to be routed to 20.20.20.10. Finally, should 10.10.10.10 come back online, I would like traffic to be automatically routed back. How do I do this? I THINK the first thing I need may be another domain name server - ns3.domain1.com - but in the second location, eg 20.20.20.2. Is this right? And what comes next? Once somebody explains this to me, it will probably seem straightforward and simple, but it sure seems murky now. Suzanne Swift SpecSimple.com Where the world of design connects.

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