Gateway query

[wizzer]

I'm running a network where i have 2 ADSL lines to access the internet, on each of the ADSL lines i have static IP addresses which i can map to internal servers.

I have a web server which is set up as 10.0.0.9 on our internal network. I have two domains set up as so:
server1.domain.com which resolves to 10.10.10.10 which is a static IP address on the first internet connection
server2.domain.com which resolves to 10.10.10.20 which is a static IP address on the second internet connection

On each of the internet connections i have a firewall.
Firewall 1 is 10.0.3.245
Firewall 2 is 10.0.3.251

If i set the default gateway on my web server to 10.0.3.245 then i can access the web server externally on server1.deanhouse.com
If i set the default gateway on my web server to 10.0.3.251 then i can access the web server externally on server2.deanhouse.com

My question is how do i set the routing on the web server so that i can access it externall on both of the addresses at the same time??

Thank you
James Wilson

 

[TechyMcSe2k]

You'll need two nics. one with each gateway, but this will mean two IP's on the Web server, but that should'nt cause issue as the website should answer on both ip's if so configured. Then use external DNS to round-robin the access externally to the webserver.

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[58sniper]

DNS round robin isn't service aware, so an outage on one side could still be problematic without some manual intervention.

If it were me, I'd put a router in front of the box, with WICs for the various Internet connections. Configure the web server to use the router as its gateway. Traffic should take the best route from the server.

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[wizzer]

Thanks for the replies... the server is virtual so the option of having two nics isn't really a problem.

I wonder if i could fix this using some of the hyper-v networking facilities, though i'm more out of my depth here - i'll certainly take a look...