(HELP)Configuring two Solaris 10 sun servers for FAILOVER.

Hi guys,
i have two sunfire v440 servers which i have loaded Solaris 10 OS on them and i have installed a Web and DNS server on them..However i would like to synchronize both the servers for FAILOVER,so that incase one is down (crashes),the second can take over.I believe their is a daemon which can be used to accomplish this task.
Any ideas on what daemon in Solaris 10 that can do the Heartbeat synchronisation of two Solaris 10 servers,so that when one crashes,the second takes over.I will appreciate your assistance on this sys-admins.
Regards
ncmaina

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