Re: [hylafax-users] Enterprise Hylafax

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Wednesday, September 06, 2000, at 2:04:58 AM, Darren Nickerson wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, "Victor" == Victor M. Moreno wrote:
>   Victor> Thanks for the response Jay, I know it's a little bit off-topic, but
>   Victor> could you point me where can I found more information about that, or
>   Victor> how can I install that round-robin DNS.

> Please note that this solution will accomplish load-balancing for you, but it
> will not give you the automatic failover I believe you were looking for in
> your initial query. Round-robin is fundamental to DNS . . . when there is more
> than one Resource Record (RR) for something then the DNS rotates the answers
> it gives. You'e get (roughly) a 50/50 split in answers. Beware of nameservers
> which will cache that answer for awhile though!

Well, in the environment of most HF systems, the nameserver being
asked will be the *authoritative* nameserver.

> Anyway, If you're looking for enterprise-class clustering/failover, HylaFAX
> doesn't presently know how to do this. Sorry!

Will the client(s) not try more than once if they get more than one A
record back from the nslookup?  If not, this seems like an easy
feature to add...

Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth                                                jra@baylink.com
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