SRV-records not resolved

[Martin Rådbo]

Thanks for these answers. We have also realized that IE does not support
SRV-records.

This is a pitty because as an ISP we can make everything fault tolerance
inside our net (with load balancing, raid, double servers and so on)
but if we have two different internet connections from outside, there is n=
o
way
to direct our customers to the second line then the first line fails.

Of course there is a way:
register a second (or third) dns for the domain name pointing to the secon=
d
line, but the caching problem is impossible to solve. People will get
redirected not before their dns has released the cached information and th=
at
is not usable.

// Martin


"Barry Finkel" <b19141 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov> skrev i meddelandet
news:bnntio$q88$1 at sf1.isc.org...
> "Martin R=E5dbo" <martin at pleasereplytonewsgroup.com> wrote:
>
> >Please see the dns data above.
> >
> >We try to use a simple srv-string, there we want people surfing to
> >www.latitud.net to be directed to www1 under normal circumstances and t=
o
> >www2 if www1 is down.
> >
> >The problem is that the client surfning to the website (with IE 6.0 and=

> >Windows XP) does not resolve anything at all. We tried to check whats
wrong
> >with the two srv-strings but without success.
> >
> >Anyone?
>
> Outside of MS Windows 2000/2003, very few applications use SRV records.
> So, you can add them to your DNS zone, but no one will be querying
> them.  I do not know of an easy way to direct users to www2 if www1 is
> down, outside of a load balancer (which is not DNS-related).
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