On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 10:04:40PM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Sarunas Vancevicius thought:
>> On 5 Feb 2007, at 20:29, Conor Daly wrote:
>> 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.
Going to check that out. Thanks everyone.
Conor
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