Re: IP takeover, or proxy resolution script?

From: Oron Peled (oron_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Mon 26 Jul 2004 - 20:28:50 IDT


On Monday 26 July 2004 15:28, Ira Abramov wrote:
> Another idea I had was to have the clients (running with MSIE) to use
> proxy based on a javascript like I have set up so many times in mozilla
> and netscape... does that support automatic failover of proxies? any
> experiances will be appreciated...

If you only talk about browsing (via squid) than another option
is to cheat via DNS:
  - Each server has its own IP
  - One name is mapped to either of them

One package that may give some initial help with this is pdnsd:
  - It is a proxy DNS for poor networks (e.g: dialup).
  - You can configure it with multiple servers.
  - You can configure it to check connectivity via
    several mechanims (ping, dns query, user specified program/script, etc.)

So it may be part of the solution.

Cheers,

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