Multiple IP address to host

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Fri Sep 29 20:01:20 UTC 2000


On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 05:38:04PM +0000, scopoz at my-deja.com wrote:
> Is it possible to bind multiple IP addresses to a single host name?

Yes.

> Where a request would always resolve to the first IP address unless
> that network was unavailable, and would try the next IP address on the
> list?

Not unless you got one of the Distributed Director type of devices.  Or
rolled your own watchdog software.  All the pieces of software that
call gethostbyname() do whatever they want with the list of IP
addresses they get.  Usually ignoring all but the first.

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Joe Yao				jsdy at cospo.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
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