[Pdns-users] Failover A Record

[bert hubert]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:10:32AM -0400, jeffa at globalco.net wrote:
> I am not sure this can be done or how.

It can be done, but you need to do some work.

Make a script that tests if your server is up, if it isn't, execute a SQL
query to make the A record point somewhere else.

> Is this possible, and what must I do to make it happen?

People have integrated this with Nagios in the past.

Good luck!

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