Multiple IP address to host

[Kevin Darcy]

peter at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu.invalid wrote:

> Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
>
> > Joseph S D Yao wrote:
>
> >> On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 05:38:04PM +0000, scopoz at my-deja.com wrote:
> >> > Is it possible to bind multiple IP addresses to a single host name?
> >>
> >> Yes.
> >>
> >> > Where a request would always resolve to the first IP address unless
> >> > that network was unavailable, and would try the next IP address on the
> >> > list?
> >>
> >> 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'd call any application that does not faulty!

So would I. But since when is "faulty" and "usual" mutually exclusive,
especially when talking about applications? :-)


- Kevin