Fail over using DNS / Bind 4.9.7-1 (QID 2855)

[Barry Margolin]

In article <389B4A38.7B22CFB2 at sportingnews.com>,
James Maes  <jmaes at sportingnews.com> wrote:
>So there is not "Easy" way to do with within DNS.  Could it be done in
>conjuction with Net::DNS in perl or any of the c routines

Net::DNS and C routines would be applicable in the client applications, not
the server.  If you're programming the application, the easy way to do it
is to have two different hostnames, a primary and a backup; if the
application can't connect to the primary, it tries the backup.

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