2 Servers For Redundancy

Aug 19, 2008

im now having a second server located somewhere else then my first one.

I'd like to setup something to have redundance. if server1 goes down or even if it's too much loaded server2 take the charge.

How can i do this?

let say im having a domain "mydomain.com"

Server1 ip: 10.0.0.1 (Services; Apache, DNS)
server2 ip: 192.168.0.1 (Services; Apache, DNS)

mydomain.com nameserver would be.
ns1.mydomain.com -> 10.0.0.1
ns2.mydomain.com -> 192.168.0.1

Now will i have to create 2 NS record on both server plus A record.
I cant understand this part ?

Now how would i setup bind so they replicate zone btw each other?

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