DNS (round robin) loadbalance and redundancy

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c9nv10$2t32$1 at sf1.isc.org>, tw <sorry at not.here> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Is it possible to use DNS/Bind for more than just round robin load 
> balance and let it detect if one over the servers is down?

BIND doesn't have anything like that built into it.  You could use 
separate server monitoring software that can be configured to run a 
script when it notices a server failure, and that script could update 
the DNS using nsupdate.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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