Re: [squid-users] How to setup squid proxy to run in fail-over mode

There are 2 ways as far as I know to do this possible:

1. Use de WPAD protocol: lets say PROXY squid1; PROXY squid2 (this is fail
over)
2. Use an HA solution such as Ultramonkey3. Here you could do Active-Active.

Kind regards,

LD
Le lundi 15 juin 2009 11:09:28, Sagar Navalkar a écrit :
> Hey Remy,
>
> The DNS server does not determine which server is down, however If It is
> unable to resolve the 1st entry, it will automatically go down to the 2nd
> entry.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sagar Navalkar
> Team Leader
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mario Remy Almeida [mailto:malmeida_at_isaaviation.ae]
> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 1:36 PM
> To: Sagar Navalkar
> Cc: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org; 'abdul sami'
> Subject: RE: [squid-users] How to setup squid proxy to run in fail-over
> mode
>
> Hi Sagar,
>
> Just a Question?
>
> How can a DNS server determine that the primary server is down and it
> should resolve the secondary server IP?
>
> //Remy
>
> On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 11:21 +0530, Sagar Navalkar wrote:
> > Hi Abdul,
> >
> > Please try to enter 2 different IPs in the DNS ....
> >
> > 10.xxx.yyy.zz1 (proxyA) as primary (proxyA-Name should be same on both
> > the servers.)
> > 10.xxx.yyy.zz2 (proxyA) as secondary.
> >
> > Start squid services on both the servers (Primary & Secondary)
> >
> > If Primary server fails, the DNS will resolve secondary IP for proxyA &
>
> the
>
> > squid on second server will kick in automatically......
> >
> > Hope am able to explain it properly.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Sagar Navalkar
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: abdul sami [mailto:sami.memon_at_gmail.com]
> > Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 11:17 AM
> > To: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
> > Subject: [squid-users] How to setup squid proxy to run in fail-over mode
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Now that i have setup a proxy server, as a next step i want to run it
> > in fail-over high availability mode, so that if one proxy is down due
> > to any reason, second proxy should automatically be up and start
> > serving requests.
> >
> > any help in shape of articles/steps would be highly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks and regards,
> >
> > A Sami
>
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