two A records for one domain name?

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> In article <9hvd6p$79a at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Mike Lander <mechiman at home.com> wrot
> e:
> >Hello,
> >    I have a question regarding dns, I have a linux box redhat 6.1, acting
> >as a firewall and dns primary server,
> >with a win2k server that is serving the mail and web. I want the redhat
> >server to act as backup for web server only, If the win2k
> >server was to go down. In DNS bind. If you have two address records one
> >pointing to the redhat server and one
> >pointing to the win2k server, I believe, correct me if I am wrong that it
> >does load balanceing. Instead I want the redhat
> >server as web server backup only. Can this be done?
> 
> Not with ordinary BIND.  There's a patched version of BIND called lbdns
> that I think can do it, or you can use a 3rd party product like Cisco
> Distributed Director.
> 
	Or take the long term approach and lobby yo get SRV support into
	browsers.  This is a perfect candidate for SRV.

	Mark
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