load balancing...

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Mon Sep 18 21:59:21 UTC 2000


On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 02:50:20PM -0700, arvind rao wrote:
>   I need to setup one domain-name for 2 IP addresses
> such that if one of the machines are not up, it should
> automatically pick the other one.
>   What I saw with having just 2 "A" record entries in
> the named.domain-name/IPnetwork file was that if I try
> to ping the "domain-name", it randomly picks one of
> the 2 IP'S and if it picks the IP address of the
> machine which is down, then it just doesnt
> automatically try the other machine. How do I set it
> up so that it identifies the other machine if one
> machine is down. 
>   Is there a way to set priority level????

It can't be done with just DNS and BIND.  There are some commercial
products that will do this, however.

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