[NBLUG/talk] Redundant DNS

[Dustin Mollo]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:24:28AM -0800, Walter Hansen wrote:
> Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Anyone set up something like
> this? I have basic access to the Zone file, but I can't configure the DNS
> server.

i know what you are talking about, but i am not aware of any way to do this
with simply DNS.  you'd need a load balancing device of some sort (either a
linux/unix/etc server or an appliance that does this.)  DNS doesn't know the
status of a given machine in it's zone files - that's where the load
balancer comes in.  it can do health checks and direct tcp/udp/etc requests
to a host that is able to serve the connection.

-dustin