redundant dns services [3rd party dns]

Lou Kamenov phayze at secureroot.org.uk
Mon Apr 7 13:35:45 BST 2003


In some email I received from Serge -Intraforum- <serge at intraforum.net> on Mon, 07 Apr
2003 13:05:58 +0100, wrote:

> At 11:29 07/04/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> >Hello guys,
> >
> >Recently i`ve been trying to solve a kinda round-robin webservers, and 
> >make them a bit
> >more redundant - without much success though(just to point out that the 
> >servers are not
> >on the same network, different geographical places,) I couldnt vrrp them 
> >either ;/
> >
> >Anyways so my question is like this, obviously i`ll need a 3d party DNS 
> >service, or
> >something like akami.com's service. If anyone have any idea && experience 
> >doing this with
> >akami or any other service provider, please let me know, it`d be highly 
> >appreciated.
> 
> Try http://www.microtech.co.gg

These guys are not offering exactly what I want, also consider the fact that there are
free dyndns services like dyndns. In the same context, I need a dns server that can do
good round-robin which checks if the requested record is up or not(read online,
accessible), of course this thing will spawn loads of threads and other side
effects but, that's the least i can think about, next step is patching bind to do so, and
obviously all i care is the Web, rather than the mailserver, sinse DNS have a good
scalability for MX records(also it's in a way integrated with the SMTP protocol, which
makes the service aware of a failure and knows the backup path for it), the thing with the
web is differnt or pretty static, am I missing something in general?

Anyway, the thing i`m looking for looks is something like:

http://www.zoneedit.com/doc/faq.html#fo


anyways thanks for the input.

cheers

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