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Robert_Landrito
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Aug 04, 2009

browser-handled site failover

Greetings,     I'm trying to find a way to do a seamless site failover that may or may not involve GTM techniques. The current setup is:     -site 1, ltm 9.4.5   -site ...
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Ian_Smith
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Aug 08, 2009
Use the Fallback Host setting in the HTTP config to issue a 302 redirect that will result in the "other" LTM virtual server destination IP.

 

 

I'm not sure if IE will do a new lookup if you use the same URI, but you could just have two WideIPs in the GTM that both use the same pool(s). Then instead of issuing two responses to an A record request, you could issue one, and if an LTM virtual were to go down, queries generated by the fallback host would automatically respond with the active site.