Primary DNS failover

[Barry Margolin]

In article <4.2.2.20000303014945.00bbc100 at nordic.cisco.com>,
Johnny Fribert Lauridsen  <jlaurids at cisco.com> wrote:
>Lot of talk in this forum on this issue.  E.g. how to have multiple
>primaries for the
>same zone.  As we now all understand, this is not possible, per RFC, etc....

Nothing in the RFCs prohibits multiple master servers.

>So, how do we do it best (no more RFC and standards discussion, lets get
>practical now!)?
>UPS.  That is the first good thing.
>Periodic backup - That the next good thing.
>Some Cluster mechanism - Next good idea.
>
>Etc.
>Anyone have a good _practical_ setup for primary failover?  and the details, pls.

What is it you're trying to accomplish?  Disaster recovery?  rsync is a
decent solution.

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