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by toast0 813 days ago
> As a solution, the CRON job responsible for the DNS failover also checks for the current week number of the year so that:

> In an odd week number, the first server is the default master

> In an even week number, the second server is the default master.

This is nice. Fixes the difficulty with cert issuance in a pretty low effort manner, and ensures the failover is exercised. I've dealt with failover systems that were very rarely exercised, which usually means a lot of excitement when it does happen.