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List:       firewalls-gc
Subject:    Re: Redundant Internet Connections
From:       Julian Assange <proff () suburbia ! net>
Date:       1996-03-24 16:37:07
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>    From: Karl Janice <KJanice_+a_NYPP_+lKarl_Janice+r%NYPP@mcimail.com>
> 
> 	Is it possible to have one domain name, and relate it to multiple
> 	internet service providers. Our company would like to have dual
> 	internet connections, we're very paranoid. The goal would be to allow
> 	web access to come from one ISP, or the other, with the ability to
> 	reroute traffic should there be a loss of carrier.
> 
> This *can* be done with some fancy DNS games.  It is not the easiest
> thing in the world, and you have to convince your providers to play
> along.  I have never set it up myself, but my provider, Pilot Network
> Systems, has.  They use it for round-robin WWW server loading.

Hardly fancy. Just include two A records for the same address. You will
need two ifaces, or an ipalias on the multi-homed host.

-- 
"I mean, after all;  you have to consider we're only made out of dust.  That's
 admittedly not  much  to  go  on  and  we  shouldn't  forget  that.  But even
 considering, I mean it's sort of a bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So
 I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we
 can make it. You get me?" - Leo Bulero/PKD
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