[IRCServices] Services

Angel of Death muerte22 at hotmail.com
Sat Jan 8 16:35:24 PST 2000


That's an idea. that might work. hehe.

Muerte


>From: Jacques Marneweck <jacques at aquarius.natey.za.net>
>Reply-To: ircservices at ender.shadowfire.org
>To: ircservices at ender.shadowfire.org
>Subject: RE: [IRCServices] Services
>Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 22:10:09 +0000 (GMT)
>
>On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, John Lamb wrote:
>
> > I don't think everyone is understanding the situation presented here. 
>Say you have Services running on server A. Services links to server B, not 
>an ircd on the same box (A). Server B crashes. Now Services are no where 
>because the .conf file only has one server (B) to link to. This is 
>correctable if a person with access to server A is around to edit the .conf 
>file, but the situation is that, that person is not around. So the asked 
>for solution is to have multiple S:lines in the .conf file that Services 
>would attempt to link to in the event the primary is down. Setting up a 
>crontab to restart the ircd on server B is moot because server B is dead. 
>This is what I gathered from Angel's emails. Correct me if I'm wrong.
>
>Easy:
>
>DNS: services-uplink-entry-point.your.domain
>
>in DNS
>
>services-uplink-entry-point	IN	A	196.14.22.5
>				IN	A	196.14.22.14
>
>etc.
>
>That way the servers who's IP's are listed above get services connecting
>to them on a round-robin basis.
>
>Regards
>Jacques
>
> >
> > !K
> >
> > You wrote:
> >
> > > From: Chris Knipe <cgknipe at mweb.co.za>
> > > To: ircservices at ender.shadowfire.org
> > > Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:19:33 +0200 (SAST)
> > > Subject: RE: [IRCServices] Services
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Angel of Death wrote:
> > >
> > > >I agree, but for one reason or another that ircd may shutdown or 
>something,
> > > >i've seen it happen. And the services don't have a place to link back 
>to. Or
> > > >someone has a shell that only allows 1 proccess and they wish to use 
>it for
> > > >the services and it can only connect to 1 server. if that server 
>dies, the
> > > >network is basically SOL until the person can manually move services 
>or that
> > > >server comes back up and services are crontab'd.  Just an idea, i 
>know i'd
> > > >like it.
> > >
> > > Use an crontab to automatically restard the IRCD and services ?? 
>*frown*
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Chris Knipe
> > > Cel: (083) 430 8151
> > > Freelance Internet Developer, Consultant, Administrator &amp; Speaker
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