ISPconfig on Debian Squeeze (Debian 6.0) with mirror server in different location

[poisen]

Originally Posted by Julian

Come on man! no one can help me??!!
There are no techs here anymore!?

There are a lot of nice howtos about this subject! its no one here?

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Hey Julian,

do you have a solution for your problem already? I wanna do the same thing, I have 2 servers, they are clustered already and that is working, now I only have the problem with failover so in case one of the 2 servers goes down, the other one does the business.

[Julian]

no, I didnt found a solution to this:

can you describe a little bit your solution?

Originally Posted by poisen

Hey Julian,

do you have a solution for your problem already? I wanna do the same thing, I have 2 servers, they are clustered already and that is working, now I only have the problem with failover so in case one of the 2 servers goes down, the other one does the business.

[poisen]

I have 2 servers hosted at "Hetzner" and also have a failover-IP where you can switch between both servers using a web interface, but now I am a little bit confused since I don't exactly know what to do now. The DNS settings of a domain have to route to the failover-ip, is that correct? sadly, when I ping the failover-ip, I get no reply. Do I have to make some more settings on the two servers?

[falko]

Originally Posted by poisen

The DNS settings of a domain have to route to the failover-ip, is that correct?

That's right.

Originally Posted by poisen

sadly, when I ping the failover-ip, I get no reply. Do I have to make some more settings on the two servers?

You have to configure the failover-IP on both servers (e.g. as eth0:0).

[poisen]

Originally Posted by falko

That's right.

You have to configure the failover-IP on both servers (e.g. as eth0:0).

Hey falko,

I did the following, edited /etc/network/interfaces and added

post-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 178.63.45.111 netmask 255.255.255.192 broadcast 178.63.45.111
post-down /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 down

afterwards did the following:

root@vishnu ~ # ifup eth0:0
Ignoring unknown interface eth0:0=eth0:0.

....what am I doing wrong? The servers are hosted at Hetzner. Thanks for your help

[falko]

Is this a physical server or a virtual machine?

[poisen]

Hello falko,

I have 2 physical machines and one failover ip ... I already figured out the network configuration, just added the following to both config files of /etc/network/interfaces

auto eth0:0
iface eth0:0 inet static
  address   FA.IL.OVER.IP
  broadcast FA.IL.OVER.IP
  netmask   255.255.255.255

only problem is now that I have problems receiving emails from domains that are configured through ispconfig. Do I have to configure multiple MX-records to each of the physical servers or do I configure only one MX-record to the reverse-dns of the failover-ip? I'd be very thankful to get an answer to that question.

[falko]

You just need one MX record that points to an A record which points to your failover IP.

[bc2946088]

Why not just use a DNS provider that has failover?