backup-server

[Kevin Darcy]

If you're not running BIND today, who is hosting your DNS domains? You could
achieve a crude level of load-balancing and failover by simply defining each of
your web names with the addresses of both web servers. Whomever is hosting your
DNS should be able to handle this -- it's often called "round-robin" DNS. You
don't need to run your own DNS servers just to do round-robin DNS.

Anything more sophisticated than that is likely to require buying a commercial
load-balancing solution, and such solutions aren't typically based on BIND.


- Kevin

Helge Hofmeister wrote:

> Hello group!
>
> I have a big problem: I have 2 servers running apache and other services -
> but there's no BIND running there. Each server has it's "own" domains. But I
> want the servers to be redundant if one of them crashes (for the other
> servers' domains). My nameservers are hosted elsewhere and i have absolute
> no clue how to configure them. I have a webadministration tool for them and
> that's the way i configure my domains. But there is a field for entering
> "free" values. I think this will be written directly to the BIND-conf files.
> so it's up to me - a dump newbie - to configure the Name-Server by myself. I
> searched the net and i found the srv records. But i think they won't work
> because they are not implemented by most programs. But i found nothing else.
> I hope this is not because there are no possibilities to solve this problem
> without buying a lb-system.
> I would be very pleased if somebody forgave me my bad english and gave me a
> hint how to solve this. (afterwards i will improve my english - i swear!)