Round Robin A Records

[muheeb]

Steve,

We are using a switch (arrow point) to this in our network after I gave up
to find a way in DNS. If you do find away please let me know.

I've tried everywhere, mailing list and all.

Please keep me posted.

Muheeb

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Ford" <sford at ncc.dhl.com>
To: <bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 1:41 PM
Subject: Round Robin A Records


> Can someone please advise:
>
> We have two web servers mirrored. We have setup DNS (BIND 4.9.7) like
> this to round robin the requests:
>
> www    0300    IN A    198.141.222.111
>             0300    IN A    198.141.223.117
>
> When a client attempts to resolve the address of the hostname 'www' is
> it true that the client will receive one of the IP addresses on a round
> robin basis?
>
> If we lose one of the servers, say it is booted down, every second
> request will be the IP address of the unavailable server.
>
> Does anyone know a way of configuring DNS so that if one server is down
> all requests are directed to the available server dynamically? Manually
> we remove the A record for the unavailable server.
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
>
> -- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Listar --
> -- Type: text/x-vcard
> -- File: sford.vcf
> -- Desc: Card for Steve Ford
>
>
>