[Linux-HA] pingd for webservers

[Andrew Beekhof]

On 11/3/06, Karl Hanzel <karl at ucar.edu> wrote:
> HAers -
>
> Anyone care to speculate why you would or wouldn't want to utilize 'pingd'
> for a pair of active-active web servers in a v2 configuration?
>
> My thought is that if one server were somehow disconnected from the 'net,
> you'd surely like for it to failover to the other.  But if both appear to
> be disconnected, there's no point in failing-over at all.
>
> How to code all that?  I'm an utter 'pingd' novice, just experimenting
> with it now.  'Rather daunting.

You've seen this page?
   http://www.linux-ha.org/v2/faq/pingd