one A record, different IP address

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:22:12PM -0800, George Kallingal wrote:
> I have a rather general question.  Is it possible to have one host (A)
> record point to multiple IPs?
> 
> For example
> 
> WWW    IN    A   204.94.91.4
> WWW    IN    A   204.94.91.3

You have multiple A records with the same host name.  Quite possible.
It is not possible to have one A record with multiple IPs.  That would
look like this:

www	IN A	204.94.91.4	204.94.91.3	; BAD BAD BAD

This is wrong.  What you did was right.  What you called it was wrong.

Capish?

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