faild, failstat, ... Connection refused?

[Alan Robertson]

Marc Mc Guinness wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> What I need is a failover system for my Squid-Proxy Server. No
> loadbalancing. For that reason I read the documentation for
> failover (http://failover.othello.ch/) and installed the software
> together with the pth-libraries on 2 computers (Linux, Kernel
> 2.4.10):
> 
> Master: eth0 - 192.168.110.193
> Secondary: eth0 - 192.168.110.242
> 
> When I start the 'faild' and do a 'netstat -patune' it shows me a
> listening faild running on port 1036 on the master machine. When I
> try to do a 'failstat 192.168.110.193' from the secondary pc it
> tells me:
> 
> failstat.c:128(0x805ab98/909/2): cannot connect to remote system:
> Connection refused (111)
> 
> Now my questions:
> 1.) Is there a better alternative for my needs?

You could try heartbeat, at linux-ha.org/download/

	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr@unix.sh