[17557] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Beyond DNS...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Thu Jun 4 18:18:07 1998
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 18:04:20 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <v0300780fb19cc51aa238@[198.3.136.121]>; from Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com> on Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 05:46:36PM -0400
On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 05:46:36PM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote:
> But you can still have multiple A records, which does the failover part
> that the original poster wanted.
_If_ the clients get all the addresses from the library, _and_ try
extras when the first one no longer works. I gather neither of these
behaviors can be depended on, particularly in Wintel clients.
Cheers,
-- jra
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