From: Ellen K. 

Maybe the "official" clustering solution is the one after all. 
Like I just wrote Bob, I haven't delved into it yet.

Brave new world...

On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 07:01:36 -0400, Mike N. 
wrote in message :

>On Tue, 31 May 2005 21:52:14 -0700, Ellen K. 
>wrote:
>
>>I am so ignorant about this stuff.  Would that still work if the servers
>>are in different cities?   (I suspect my boss is going to want to have
>>the redundancy between LA and TJ.)
>
> This makes things harder - a better solution might be DNS / Active
>directory where the users connect to the server by name.    Someone would
>change the name to IP address mapping when it is necessary to failover.
>The challenge here is to see if there would be a way to defeat client DNS
>cache with a short timeout for this name lookup.

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