From: Brantley Jones (no email)
Date: Wed Jul 05 2000 - 12:03:09 EDT
At 11:17 AM 7/5/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Given a small, globally routable netblock to be used for front-end web
>servers, and a strong aversion for using DNS for any type of load
>balancing, would it be reasonable to build two identical servers farms
>with the same public IP addresses and rely on the BGP sessions with the
>hosing providers to remove one advertisement in the event of a problem?
>I've been looking at ways to ensure that the webservers are always
>available, short of building a network connecting hosting facilities.
>
>Jeremiah
>being a customer stinks
If you have cisco, you could use a BGP non-exist-map and advertise-map and
conditionally advertise that globally routable block in the case of an
outage, or have your provider do so. The main concern here being a
flapping interface, of course. Does anyone know of a way to get around the
flapping/dampening issue?
Brantley
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