help, can I set up a backup site server?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <39577940$0$28331 at wodc7nh6.news.uu.net>,
geosol <jmetcalfe at spam.geosolinc.com> wrote:
>I have basically the same question.
>
>All our Websites are bound to IPs from our UUNET T1, when our T1 dies (which
>happens far too often) we are dead!
>
>We would like to get a secondary T1 for redundancy, is it possible to bind
>the same site to two IP's and force which one is resolved?

It would be much simpler if you just routed the same address block through
both T1's.  The server address would stay the same, just the routing would
change.

If you want the second T1 to go through another ISP you'll have to
implement BGP4 routing.

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