SRV-records not resolved
Barry Finkel
b19141 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov
Tue Oct 28 15:37:11 UTC 2003
"Martin Rådbo" <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 to
>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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