push "nameserver 4.2.2.1 4.2.2.2" in your openvpn server config will set the dns on the client, without you needing to run dnsmasq.

@djvdorp Correct. I use round-robin DNS and now 9 servers (vps). They all use lighttpd, are deployed either with chef or ansible, and share the /var/www folder either via glusterfs or the /var/www fol

I looked into the DNS round robin stuff but it seems not exactly what I want.

@CoolMoon - from DNS point of view it doesn't matter

If one has apache and another uses nginx while some others are lighttpd...does that work for dns failover or load balance?

is very difficult unless you have your own dns systems in place.

I've never had any complaints nor have I ever encountered an ISP that didn't. If a user is using a DNS resolver that doesn't respect TTLs they can always change it to one that does.

Not every DNS resolvers respects TTL's...

DNSMadeEasy's DNS Failover + very low TTL = EXCELLENT.

Trying setup a sorta awesome failover/distributed network with minimum 3 location where files will be mirrored across mutiple servers and dns will be redundant and should have auto failover. Sill tryi

I achieve this by load balancing. I do not find a round robin dns to be suitable fr high-availability operation. On the other side, I can always load balance the load balancers through DNS.

Thanks a lot...any recommendation for a good round robin dns and load balancer software/solution on LEB?

Wouldn't you want a load balancer vs a round robin DNS? If you have a round robin dns setup, clients could be caching the servers, even the ones that are down.

Hi, The easiest way of achieving this would be dnsmadeeasy's failover service, which will redirect your visitors given that they are using nameservers that respect low ttl. Dnsmadeeasy consts tly moni

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Round robin DNS setup / auto fail over.

Well, anyone using SolusVM can now create a PowerDNS cluster, as I have done just that and provide access to it to any customer for the asking, with servers in both of my locations and a 3rd at Rocket

nsd can hand a lot of dns zones & requests in a few MBs of memory. With two LEB's that average 98% uptime and cost less than $2/month, the probability of one being up is 99.96%. Add a third on

I prefer 3rd party as all my major sites are behind proxy's. I can't risk it with self hosted DNS services.

External DNS hosting is a convenience if (a) you only have a handful of domains and are satisfied to let the registrar handle it, or use a free service, or pay a small amount for an entry-level commer