Luddite - 3:09 am on Feb 22, 2005 (gmt 0)

adwhite, I don't think a reboot will help any -

If the machines are communicating to the world from a private IP range (IE 192.168.x.x), your router needs to start handing traffic for 'www.yourdomain.com' to the backup box when the primary goes down. If you're using commercial hardware, I expect this can be automatic. If you're using consumer hardware like in a home network, you'll probably need to do this manually. I know my (cheap) routers at home won't do this automatically.

If it's a pair of machines on public (IE real, routable) IP addresses, you'll probably want to change the DNS entry to point 'www.yourdomain.com' at the second machine's IP address in event of failure. This can be configured with something like dyndns.org.