[olug] Multi-home Configuration

[Daniel Pfile]

However, if one of the two network segments goes down, 50% of the  
requests will fail. You need to have your own block of IPs, a router,  
and lots of money to throw at your upstream providers to get better  
redundancy.

-- Daniel

On Jun 16, 2005, at 7:49 AM, Trent Melcher wrote:

> Basically you can have an address(A) records that point to each IP  
> address,
> then have a CNAME record that points to the A records.
>
> Or you can just have 2 A records and skip the CNAME record.
>
> Example:
>
> www.yourdomain.com    IN    CNAME        yourserver.yourdomain.com
>  yourserver.yourdomain.com    IN    A    10.0.0.1
>  yourserver.yourdomain.com    IN    A    10.0.0.2
>  yourserver.yourdomain.com    IN    A    10.0.0.3
>
>
>
> Trent
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On  
> Behalf Of Jon
> H. Larsen
> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 7:27 AM
> To: dan at linder.org; Omaha Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [olug] Multi-home Configuration
>
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Daniel Linder wrote:
>
>
>> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:54:53 -0500 (CDT)
>> From: Daniel Linder <dan at linder.org>
>> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
>> Cc: olug at olug.org
>> Subject: Re: [olug] Multi-home Configuration
>>
>> --[PinePGP]-------------------------------------------------- 
>> [begin]--
>>
>> Jon H. Larsen said:
>>
>>> If I want to make a multi-home configuration box, using two network
>>> segments, how would I set up DNS to reference the same hostname with
>>> two different IP addresses on the Internet?
>>>
>>
>> I need some clarification here...
>>
>> What is the multi-homed system doing?  Is it a firewall with a "real"
>> IP address on one interface, and an 10.X.X.X address on the  
>> other?  Or
>> does it have two "real" IP addresses that you want to serve Web pages
>> off of on the Internet?
>>
>
> Two "real" IP Addresses.
>
> Jon L.
>
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