[geeks] Remote Failover

James Fogg James at jdfogg.com
Tue May 20 14:05:49 CDT 2008


> >> in the DNS round-robin so it sends a message to the DNS server to
add
> >> itself back into the "www" CNAME.
> >
> > DNS round-robin is a really poor way to do failover/balancing, due
to
> TTL
> > and caching.  Why not use Ethernet load balancing, etc
(LocalDirector
> and
> > so forth)?
>
> Because the machines are a thousand miles apart.  I'm not particularly
> concerned with balancing, really.  And I can always set the TTL really
> low for that one record, no?


F5 load balancers and F5 3DNS.

BTDT, worked like it's supposed to.



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