Using Dynamic DNS for a Co-Location

[Srivatsa Srinivasan]

You can use Net::DNS Perl module write a script and trigger it based  
on a event

Thanks

Vatsa
On May 19, 2006, at 9:27 AM, connah at gmail.com wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> My organization needs to establish a co-location in the event that our
> primary office loses power. The "co-location" will consist only of a
> computer running vital websites. I would like to understand how we can
> use DNS to accomplish this. The goal is that if website ABC.COM
> (1.1.1.1) goes down, we want some process in the co-location  
> monitoring
> that. When it detects an outage, our DNS records need to be  
> modified to
> point ABC.COM to 2.2.2.2 with as short of propagation time as possible
> (hopefully minutes, if not seconds).
>
> Can this be done? If so, how? Also, if you see that this is a
> ridiculous idea and have a better one, please suggest it! I don't much
> care HOW it gets accomplished. I just want the ultimate functionality
> of another box picking up for us.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Matthew
>
>