From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 10 8:32:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.joemagee.com (cc286272-b.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.180.97.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB9B637B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 08:32:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:37:30 -0500 Message-Id: <200101101137.AA34341114@mail.joemagee.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "lists " Reply-To: X-Sender: To: Subject: Dynamic DNSing for Redundancy X-Mailer: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello All! I've been given a neato project. I need to setup a DNS server that will function as a regular DNS server as well as re-direct its DNS broadcasting in the even that a machine goes offline. Here is what I would like to do: take the instance www.adomain.com Would have two webservers (their content would be manually synced) one at 24.X.X.x and one at 63.X.X.X. A was thinking of using a script that would do this: ping 24.X.X.X if up than www.adomain.com = 24.X.X.X if down than ping 63.X.X.X if up than www.adomain.com = 63.X.X.X if down than ping GATE.WAY.OF.DNS if up than alert me if down than REBOOT DNS SERVER Does this make sense? is there a utility that will do this or should I just write this nifty script and somehow set it to run on a 5 minute basis. The reason I wanted a utility that did this is so I could have close to seemless (non-stateful) redundancy I plan on doing this on all of my FreeBSD DNS servers if feasible. Thanks Joe Magee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message