two A records for one domain name?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9hvd6p$79a at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Mike Lander <mechiman at home.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>    I have a question regarding dns, I have a linux box redhat 6.1, acting
>as a firewall and dns primary server,
>with a win2k server that is serving the mail and web. I want the redhat
>server to act as backup for web server only, If the win2k
>server was to go down. In DNS bind. If you have two address records one
>pointing to the redhat server and one
>pointing to the win2k server, I believe, correct me if I am wrong that it
>does load balanceing. Instead I want the redhat
>server as web server backup only. Can this be done?

Not with ordinary BIND.  There's a patched version of BIND called lbdns
that I think can do it, or you can use a 3rd party product like Cisco
Distributed Director.

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