[60352] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Server Redundancy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Thu Aug 7 03:34:05 2003
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 00:30:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: Simon Lockhart <simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Cc: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030807072924.GM19866@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> The gated solution sounds interesting, but doesn't automatically have the
> feedback loop of stopping advertising itself when apache stops responding,
> but the box is still up (which is a fairly common occurence in our Apache2
> testing).
Most folks tie Big Brother or Netsaint or just an expect script into the
loop, and withdraw the advertisement and sound an alarm when a service is
offline.
-Bill
