Will this work? One host name with two IPs?

[Brad Knowles]

At 2:34 PM +0000 7/26/01, HW wrote:

>  My client would like to define one host name with two different IP addresses
>  as failover.  The plan is that when one IP is not working, users can still
>  use the same host name (but DNS will lookup to the second IP address) to
>  access to the system.

	You can easily have multiple IP addresses for a hostname, but the 
nameserver will hand them out in random order, so you want to make 
sure that all machines are always accessible at all times (well, 
assuming that machines don't go down, etc...).


	Oh, and please don't use garbage in your return address.  The 
newsgroup you posted this message to is gatewayed to a mailing list, 
and having this garbage in your address is anti-social and makes it 
more difficult for people to reply to you with the kind of 
information you've requested.

	Moreover, all address scanning tools I know of are intelligent 
enough to remove all "NOSPAM" type tags I've ever seen, so it doesn't 
do any good anyway.

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Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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