From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 12 23:40:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lozen.uit.no (lozen.Uit.No [129.242.5.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B71837B408 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 23:40:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ingeborg.Hellemo@cc.uit.no) Received: from joseph.cc.uit.no (joseph.Cc.Uit.No [129.242.6.242]) by lozen.uit.no (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f7D6e5l17635; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 08:40:05 +0200 (METDST) Received: from boyd.cc.uit.no (boyd.Cc.Uit.No [129.242.6.121]) by joseph.cc.uit.no (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f7D6e4Q28557; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 08:40:04 +0200 (METDST) Received: from boyd.cc.uit.no (ingeborg@localhost) by boyd.cc.uit.no (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f7D6e3q07105; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 08:40:03 +0200 Message-Id: <200108130640.f7D6e3q07105@boyd.cc.uit.no> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Sean Chittenden Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HA/Failover solutions for FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Aug 2001 12:37:35 PDT." <20010810123735.A48817@rand.tgd.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 08:40:03 +0200 From: Ingeborg Hellemo X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 1.2 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG sean@chittenden.org said: > > I am looking for a failover solution for FreeBSD that handles service failover > > if the host or the service dies, and does not need a shared disk. > > > > What kind of application are you trying to provide HA/LB > services for? -sc > DNS. To avoid the timeout when the first nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf (or equivalent on other platforms) is unreachable I want this IP address (and the named process) to move over to another host if named or the host dies. --Ingeborg -- Ingeborg Østrem Hellemo -- ingeborg@cc.uit.no (Univ. of Tromsø, Norway) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message