[geeks] Remote Failover

[Nadine Miller]

James Fogg wrote:
>>>> 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.

+1 if you can afford it. F5's rule.

=Nadine=