failover A records

[Karl Pielorz]

John Banas wrote:
> 
> Is there a way I can failover an A record, so If one webserver goes down, it
> will automatically go to the other webserver.
> 
> I setup a "round robin" (load sharing) which works great but if the one
> server goes down it will not "forward" to the other IP. Can I even have a A
> record failover?
> 
> Current Configuration:
>                 IN      A       192.1.1.1
>                 IN      A       192.1.1.2
> 
> Thanks for the help...

That's as good as you can get, without having a 'net director' or similar
front end (on a single IP) that forwards the requests to applicable web
servers [sitting behind it].

Round-Robin is as good as Bind can do in this situation...

-Kp