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On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 07:40:02PM -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
&gt; On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:51:34 -0500, James P. Kinney III
&gt; &lt;jkinney at localnetsolutions.com&gt; wrote:
&gt; &gt; I am looking at setting up a small non-local redundant webserver. The
&gt; &gt; net access for each node is through different ISP's so each node has
&gt; &gt; different IP's. In fact, there is nothing in common between the two
&gt; &gt; different networks. They have no common router.
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; The main site is serverd by a T1 line that is susceptable to an outage
&gt; &gt; caused by falling trees. I would like to make the outage as short as
&gt; &gt; possible by making the backup site live as fast as possible. Right now,
&gt; &gt; other than editing the DNS listing and waiting for the change to
&gt; &gt; propogate, I have no other way to do this.
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; Any suggestions?
&gt; &gt; --
&gt; &gt; James P. Kinney III          \Changing the mobile computing world/
&gt; 
&gt; If nothing else, you could try round-robin DNS.
&gt; 
&gt; That way roughly half of your dns quiries will go to each IP.
&gt; 
&gt; Then set your client TTL low so your users are requesting a new DNS
&gt; entry fairly often.
&gt; 
&gt; If one of your sites fails,  there is a 50% chance your users will go
&gt; to the other site with their next DNS request.  (ie. if you have M$
&gt; users, they do a dns request at least once per reboot.)
&gt; 
&gt; Greg
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