Multiple IP address to host

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 04:10:26PM -0400, Kevin Darcy wrote:
> Joseph S D Yao wrote:
...
> > Not unless you got one of the Distributed Director type of devices.  Or
> > rolled your own watchdog software.  All the pieces of software that
> > call gethostbyname() do whatever they want with the list of IP
> > addresses they get.  Usually ignoring all but the first.
> 
> "Usually"? I thought _most_ applications these days were smart enough to do
> the failover.

I could be wrong.

Things could have changed, and certainly many of us are now using Open
Source versions of those tools, rather than the Bell and BSD versions I
remember.  I wouldn't have noticed, because I don't usually have this
kind of a situation.  Next time I have one of these tools open, I'll
look and see.  ;-}

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