Tell me if this will work...

O.k. I am looking for a cost effective way to add reduncancy/failover.

I have two servers - server1 is primary DNS with website1 and server2 is secondary DNS with a mirrored/rsync'd copy of website1.

Can't I just setup the DNS records on Server1 to point to website1 on server1? Then setup server2 DNS records to point to IP on server2?

My thoughts are that if Server1 fails, the site goes down...the DNS goes down and then the secondary DNS at server2 will kick in and point to server2's mirrored/rsync'd copy of website1. Then when server1 comes back it because the primary and everything is hunky.

My brain says this should work "In Theory", but I fully admit I am NO DNS expert.

Can anyone add anything to this???

Thanks!

 

 

 

 

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