[115018] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Facility wide DR/Continuity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Wed Jun 3 08:21:17 2009
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 19:21:26 +0700
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On Jun 3, 2009, at 7:09 PM, Drew Weaver wrote:
> What is the best way to handle the routing? Obviously two devices
> cannot occupy the same IP address at the same time, so how do you
> provide that instant 'cut-over'?
Avoid 'cut-over' entirely - go active/active/etc., and use DNS-based
GSLB for the various system elements.
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