Thread: Switch to secondary IP when primary ISP is down
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  Post #13 (permalink)   02-11-2009, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by pcs800 View Post
Hello, I need to set up DNS or whatever it is that does this, to redirect exampleurl.com to a different IP address if the primary is not available. Recently one of my ISP's had a long power outage and my web site, email, message boards were not accessible for over 5 hours.

It would be nice if something detected this and forwarded visitors to another server on a working IP.

Help?
If it was ISP issue (downtime) ..I dont feel even a secondary IP would have helped you in that case.