Setting up a backup server

[Jeffrey Meltzer]

Round Robin DNS is either/or.

IE, if www.you.com has 2 a records as 111.111.111.111 and 222.222.222.222, a
lookup will return both ip's, at random. I think what you want is some kind
of Load Balancer, etc. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org 
> [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On Behalf Of Hiten Patel
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 10:54 AM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject: Setting up a backup server
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to setup a backup webserver that is accessed 
> when the first
> webserver is down.
> ie
> 111.111.111.111 webserver one
> 222.222.222.222 webserver two (mirror of web server one)
> 
>  www.domain.com on 111.111.111.111 is redirected to 
> 222.222.222.222, when
> webserver one is down.
> 
> I want webserver two on 222.222.222.222 to be accessed ONLY 
> when webserver
> one is not available.
> At all other times the webserver two is online but not being access
> (redundant backup).
> 
> I thing this is possible using round robin DNS but have now 
> idea how to set
> this up, the howto's I have
> seen all mention that both servers are accessed.
> 
> is it possible to do this with bind 9.
> 
> hope someone can help me
> 
> Hiten
> 
> 
>