chicken and egg question

[Len Conrad]

>... but how will netsol know what IP addys those names refer to?

all is revealed here:

http://bind8nt.meiway.com/publicDNS.cfm

>with MX records it's possible to define secondary, tertiary, etc mail
>addresses to attempt to deliver to.  is it possible to do something
>similar for our web server?

no

>or am i just smoking something?

smells like it.

I have a client who uses the radware linkproof box in many 
circumstances.  your DNS would delegate www.yourdomiain.com as a zone to 
the linkproof, and it passes out different A records depending on what it 
thinks the multiple web servers' loads are.  about $15K

Len


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