One Domain; Multiple IPs.

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Mon Jul 16 14:40:20 UTC 2001


	Just specify two A records.

> 
> We have one domain, which is mostly used to access a webserver.  The
> webserver has two Internet connections; when one goes down, it can
> still be accessed via the other.  Obviously, this server has two IPs
> (one on each connection).  Unfortunately, www.domain on this box can
> only resolve to one IP, as far as I know.  Is there any way to specify
> two addresses, so that when one connection goes down, the nameserver
> automatically starts responding with the IP for the other connection?
> 
> I realize that there probably isn't any way to do this with standard
> BIND.  One thing I was wondering about--how would NetSol react if we
> submitted two nameservers for our domain, with each one responding to
> the www.domain with a different IP?  Is this a solution in any way?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Dominik
> 
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