general question about bind

Doug Barton DougB at DougBarton.net
Tue Sep 24 20:06:39 UTC 2002


On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, wilhelm.grundner wrote:

>
>
> hi,
>
> is there a way to tell dns to use another ip-address
> for the same dns-name when the first ip-address is not
> up and running or unreachable (i dont mean dns-round-robin ...)
>
> i know that something like that can be achieved via
> 'heartbeat' for example, but my client wants to know if this
> can be done via dns only ...

No, it's not possible with DNS only.

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