On 5 Feb 2007, at 20:29, Conor Daly wrote:
> A recent failure hung the machine to the point where an ftp connection
> would hang waiting for a response. The machine would respond to
> pings. I
> took the machine down for repairs and booted another to receive the
> incoming ftp files. I just gave it the primary machine's ip address.
>> In the course of considering failover possibilities, I note that
> something
> that manages to detect the hung machine would not be able to take
> over the
> task since the hung machine's ip address would be still in use.
Would it not just be easier to use a virtual IP for ftp.example.com
and just have a heartbeat between ftp1 and ftp2 machines?
For example, if the heartbeat, Nagios' check_ftp plugin or even Monit
detect that the FTP server is not responding, the virtual IP take
over would be initiated by ftp2 box; a simple script to kill the
heartbeat on ftp1 should be enough for this to happen.
Take a look at http://www.linux-ha.org for more info.
Sarunas
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