Adrian Reber wrote:
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 12:05:30PM +0100, Adrian Reber wrote:
>> Why not having a second mirrormanager running on another machine and
>> have in DNS 2 A records?
> I just tested it and it works. I had two entries in DNS; one pointing to
> a not existing host and another to an existing. Depending on the answer
> from the DNS yum first connects to the existing host and everything just
> works. If it connects to the non existing host it times out and then
> goes to the existing host. I am surprised that it works.
>
> If we do that, some users might get a short timeout using yum, but it
> seems like it should work.
In the case one of the machines goes down.
Or the Webserver dies...
What if the Service throws a 404 or similar?
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