Re: failover web and mail servers???

From: Matt (mattpayton_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/06/03 

Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 20:35:29 GMT

Mairhtin O'Feannag wrote:
> Is there a way to make two linux servers act as failover servers for the
> purposes of web and mail serving?

Yes

> We would like to host email and web
> services for a few of our clients who are unhappy with the service they
> get from SBC.
>
> But I haven't seen anything in the way of a how-to or anything.
> Essentially, we want to have two boxes sitting side-by-side, and if one
> should fail, the other takes over the load. I know we did this sort of
> thing at PeopleSoft when I was there, but I don't recall how it was done.
> I think that there was a heart-beat response sort of thing, and if the
> slave machine got no response, it assumed the IP of the master and
> carried on blythley as if nothing had happened.
>
> Any thoughts/articles/how-to's??????

Heartbeat
http://www.linux-ha.org/ 

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