Search Again: Redundancy through DNS From: Nic Thomson Date: Monday, July 30, 2001 Time: 10:23:16 am Due to impending power shutdown at our head office we are investigating various options to make our web server redundant. The first problem is both our name servers are the same subnet. So I presume I have to move one of the name servers to a different physical location. We're running quick DNS on two Macs on site And Webstar on the server. Obviously with the load balanceing plugins we could, set up a second copy of webstar etc, offsite this would be fine except for the fact that the server has a lot of Dynamic pages and the remote version of webstar would not have access these pages. Ideally the set up we're after, would send all requests to the main server until, It was no longer available. When this happened the second webserver would kick in to handle the request. The main problem as I see it is that any request for the dynamic pages must be sent to the first web server. Are there any load balancing options which allow for for requests being sent to the second server ONLY when the first server is down, and do not require identical sets of software in both servers. Any help appreciatded Nic

Messages In This Thread: Redundancy through DNS by Nic Thomson on Jul 30, 2001 at 10:23:16 am Re: Redundancy through DNS by Men & Mice Support on Jul 31, 2001 at 12:41:04 am