Tools for detecting a dead server and deactivating the corresponding name entry

[Ron Pitts]

Have a look at http://www.eddieware.org/old/dns_server.html  I remember they
had some sort of add-on for BIND to allow load balancing similar to round
robin.




-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
Behalf Of Jim Reid
Sent: 23 February 2001 10:43
To: Christoph Wagner
Cc: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: Tools for detecting a dead server and deactivating the
corresponding name entry


>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Wagner <christoph-w at gmx.at> writes:

    Christoph> Hi, In normal operation the name server resolves using
    Christoph> round robin between the multiple entries.  I want a
    Christoph> solution to check if a server is ok and if one of them
    Christoph> is down the name server should stop resolving this
    Christoph> address.

There are commercial products like Cisco's Distributed Director which
do this. Regular DNS software doesn't.