Multiple IP address to host

[Kevin Darcy]

Joseph S D Yao wrote:

> 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.

"Usually"? I thought _most_ applications these days were smart enough to do
the failover.


- Kevin