Highly Available DNS?

Bill Manning bmanning at ISI.EDU
Wed Oct 20 17:19:51 UTC 1999


> 
> Anyone have any insight to this?
> 
> Situation:
> 
> Customer has single DNS server and wishes to take redundancy measures.
> Customer has 3000 clients all pointing to this single DNS server IP
> address and is not willing to make DNS configuration modifications on
> the client side.
> 
> Options:
> 
> 1) IBM eNetwork Dispatcher to direct requests to primary DNS server
> unless it fails, in which case requests directed to standby.
> 
> 2) Clustered DNS servers in hot-standby configuration.
> 
> 3) "Poor man's HA" scripted solution that may involve manual
> intervention.
> 
> TIA

	If they would let it "out", I like the ultraDNS tool.
	(note that I am biased here)
	www.ultradns.com

	you could also use ciscos product.

-- 
--bill


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