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Re: The Two Server Distance Problem (Re: DNS Trick??)

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Subject: Re: The Two Server Distance Problem (Re: DNS Trick??)
From: Joel Webb <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:04:39 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Joseph Mack wrote:

If both machines have to look like one virtual machine, then I guess we 
can do mail services and other things like that. Huh?

I guess we would have to have an email server outside the Virtual Server.


> Joel Webb wrote:
> 
> > Basically if the computers are mirrored (rsynced) and the failover,
> > heartbeats are in place, and MySQL are mirrored as well, how do you
> > configure the DNS.
> 
> the DNS for the name associated with the VIP?
> It doesn't change. It's the same as if you moved
> a single machine to the other end of town.
> 
> The routers have to figure out that the machine is in a new location,
> but the DNS doesn't change.
>  
> > Do we still consider both computers two different names?? Or does both
> > computers share a Virtual Name??
> 
> an LVS to work has to look like one machine to the outside world.
> There is only one IP exposed to the outside world for a each virtual
> service.
> For administration, all the computers will have private addresses
> on the RIP network.
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> 

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Respectfully,
Joel Webb
WebbGroup Network Systems
www.webbgroup.net
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