[88751] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Disaster recovery using as-prepend?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Thu Feb 16 10:10:34 2006
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: "Christopher J. Pilkington" <christopher.j.pilkington@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:10:02 +0100
In-Reply-To: <6004a3f50602160656k4cd97047x@mail.gmail.com> (Christopher
J. Pilkington's message of "Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:56:43 -0500")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* Christopher J. Pilkington:
> We have a disaster recovery site which will have a clone of the myriad
> production servers. We'd like to fail over to that site
> automagically.
>
> I'm thinking advertising the same prefix and just doing several
> as-prepends. However, now I'm not sure if this is a polite thing to
> do or not.
Can your backup servers run in parallel to your primary servers? How
do you handle conflicting updates (assuming that the services are not
completely stateless)?
