Re: Securing web site with redundancy ?

From: Ivan Krstic (krstic_at_fas.harvard.edu)
Date: 08/21/04

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    Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 01:02:01 +0200
To: Bйnoni MARTIN <Benoni.MARTIN@libertis.ga>

    Bйnoni MARTIN wrote:
    > I was wondering if there was a way to set up 2 "redundant" web
    > servers (identical web sites), i.e. when one crashes, the other one
    > takes the connection over. The same thing which is already available
    > for firewalls (high disponibility), but with web servers.

    With Linux, there is http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org. FreeBSD used to
    offer an application in ports called 'vrrpd' to do something similar, if
    I recall correctly.

    Cheers,
    Ivan.

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