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That's our next step is automating our fail over. We currently use DNS Made Easy and while you can do that with them it's tougher. We are switching to Dyn, an
by NyxWulf 14y ago
That's our next step is automating our fail over. We currently use DNS Made Easy and while you can do that with them it's tougher. We are switching to Dyn, and their Layer 2 failure detection will put our failover in that 6 second range.
- rdl 14y agoDNS based failover in practice will not give you 6 second failover, unlike BGP. Too much of DNS is broken and out of your control. (The trend for regular ISPs is probably improving, except that mobile/carrier DNS is often particularly broken. It would be interesting to do monthly surveys of this.)