name with multiple IP address

[Nick Simicich]

At 11:51 AM 3/29/2001 +0300, razvan at ns.rartel.ro wrote:
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>If I understood your question correctly, it can't. Normally the resolver
>will hand over the first A address and discard the others.

Huh?  It returns all the A records.  Usually in round robin order.  It is
the application that decides to use the first one and not bother with the
rest.

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>Regards,
>Razvan
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>Razvan Bruma
>Unix System Administrator
>email: razvan at rartel.ro
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>On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Hossien Yadollahi wrote:
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>> Hi,  The scenario is: 
>> Application sent a request to resolver to resolve the name to IP address
of a router,  router has two CP's each with different IP address. 
>> Assuming the server is capable of sort the IP addresses of the CP's on
the router & answer the resolver query with both IP addresses,  
>> My question is how can application tell which IP belongs to which CP.  
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>> Many Thanks   
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