Bind 9 on more servers

[Ketil Froyn]

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 12:51, Dalibor Malek wrote:
> www IN A 192.168.168.150
> www. IN A 192.168.168.151
> www IN A 192.168.168.152
> 
> www IN A 192.168.168.153
> 
> or something like that,
> When one server is down the user gets to an other server but what 
> happens when all four servers are up, which one is getting the traffic.
> Is something like that possible?
> If yes how can I solve it?

Hi Dalibor,

Something like this is possible, but DNS is not the way to do it. This
project is aiming to do exactly what you want:

http://www.ultramonkey.org/

If you add severel lines like you proposed, they should all get an equal
share of the traffic. When one goes down, traffic will not redirect
automatically, traffic to that server will fail. Clients might try
different strategies in this case, but many clients will simply display
a failure to the user, even if several of your other servers are up.

Ketil Froyn
ketil at froyn.name
http://ketil.froyn.name/