We would have to initiate this from the machine that is not responding, or we would have to have a router under our control connected upstream.
The former, of course, won't work when the machine is not responding, at least until we know why the machine stops responding (in which case we don't need this solution anymore). The latter exceeds our current budget of $0.00.
Jason
Philipp W. wrote:
Hmm, one could put a short TTL on the DNS entry, and swap it to point to another machine in case of problems.
However that could be problematic in terms of hugely increasing traffic for the DNS server.
I tried this several times... i don't think it is a good idea. Isn't it possible to do a normal port-forwarding while doing some work on the server?
Phil
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