[cvsnt] Accessing repository on disaster recovery server

[David Somers]

Michael Wojcik wrote:
[snip]
> DR servers can use the same (fully-qualified) name.  Alternatively, you
> could have a single proxy server that forwards CVS requests to either
> the primary or the secondary server, depending on which is available.  I
> don't know offhand of any existing CVSNT proxy, but at first glance it
> seems pretty trivial to implement.  (I've proxied the CVSNT lockserver
> for debugging purposes.)

FWIW proxying the cvs protocol is fairly easy... I did it for my cvssproxy
applet (http://www.omz13.com/cvssproxy)... I did consider expanding it at
some stage into a more powerful proxy with DR/HA capabilities.

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David Somers
typographer/programmer/whatever