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the same subnet from two different locations? When the route to one
fails traffic won't even try going to it. No DNS witchery involved. You
want IP failover right? So it really should be handled at the IP layer.


"Barry Margolin" <barmar at genuity.net> wrote in message
news:<wXKq8.22$ha2.1198 at paloalto-snr2.gtei.net>...
> > In article <a8fsis$svt at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
> > Kevin Darcy  <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
> > >For this reason, folks who are serious about webserver load-balancing
> usually
> > >go for a clustering solution, or buy a device like the ones Cisco
> sells, which
> > >can "frontend" multiple web servers behind a single IP address.
> > 
> > These solutions only work if all the servers are at a single location.
> If
> > you don't want the data center to be a single point of failure you'll
> need
> > to have servers in multiple data centers, and this probably
> necessitates a
> > DNS-based failover mechanism.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
> > Genuity, Woburn, MA
> > *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to
> newsgroups.
> > Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to
> the group.
> > 
>