From: Bugs (bb1@humboldt.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 06 2002 - 16:02:41 EDT
Hi Managers,
We would like to have a way of an automated system in which
if our web server fails, another machine takes over the IP,
and displays a web page notification of the web server down, check again
in XX minutes.
Then when the web server comes back up, it must get back its IP, and
notify the temp machine to relinquish the IP, and go back to a standy
mode.
We cannot carry out the change in the nameserver because of the time
it would take to cache in the new name/IP throughout the internet.
This will be a short term solution until a load balancing system is
implemented.
If anyone is already doing this, or has ideas they wish to share about
it, please reply.
Thanks!
Bugs Brouillard Unix system administrator
Humboldt State Univ. Information Technology Services
Arcata, Calif.
email bb1@humboldt.edu
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