Priority on [A records]

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>From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard at Tesco.NET>
>To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
>Subject: Re: Priority on A registers
>Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 09:33:57 +0000
>
>d> A customer has asked me if it's possible to have a second web
>d> server that only should respond in case the first web server
>d> crashes. I thought that it could be resolved with a correctly
>d> configuration of DNS, but I haven't found anything usefull.
>
>That's because there isn't anything useful.  The DNS is not the tool for 
>this
>job.
>

And here are some of the specific reasons why (issues with GSLB == issues 
with local hot/standby servers in this case). 
http://www.tenereillo.com/GSLBPageOfShame.htm

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