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>On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 22:55, Brandon Colbert wrote:
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>>I want to be able to setup a redundant Internet connection using two 
>>isp. If one link goes down, I want to be able to access the webserver 
>>via other link. I know I am going to have to setup ip alias, but how do 
>>I setup the round robin DNS or is there an another way to handle this.
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>You'll need to have primary and secondary resolv.conf files. Most ISP's
>don't care if you use a dns that is not theirs, but it may make things
>slow.
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>At any rate, make sure your ISP's are locked to a specific ethernet
>card. Now you can use iptable/ipchains to route a specific ISP's DNS
>server requests out a specific ethernet card. The reason for the dual
>resolve.conf files is so when one goes down (call it the primary dns)
>you can script a ping test of the upstream gateway for each node and
>reset a link to /etc/resolve.conf based on which ISP node has died. Make
>the last entry in each file a DNS server from the other ISP so current
>queries can still get handled if the node dies during a DNS request.
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Thanks, I got it figured out.


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