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sclitheroe · 07-23-2009, 03:34 PM

You could load balance them with priorities configured, that is pretty easy to set up on Windows 2003/2008, and pretty simple on Linux too I would imagine. This isn't an ideal configuration, because if the primary server is up, but web services are down, WLBS will continue to direct traffic to it.

A purely DNS solution isn't ideal for internet facing servers, as DNS caching upstream is going to cause issues, I would think, unless you run your own DNS server and want to handle the additional traffic of constant lookups using non-cacheable entries. I'm not sure how widely supported a TTL of 0 at any rate.

07-23-2009, 03:34 PM	#2
sclitheroe #1 Goaltender Join Date: Sep 2005 Exp:	You could load balance them with priorities configured, that is pretty easy to set up on Windows 2003/2008, and pretty simple on Linux too I would imagine. This isn't an ideal configuration, because if the primary server is up, but web services are down, WLBS will continue to direct traffic to it. A purely DNS solution isn't ideal for internet facing servers, as DNS caching upstream is going to cause issues, I would think, unless you run your own DNS server and want to handle the additional traffic of constant lookups using non-cacheable entries. I'm not sure how widely supported a TTL of 0 at any rate. __________________ -Scott Last edited by sclitheroe; 07-23-2009 at 03:43 PM.