mulitple IP addy

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue May 18 19:55:23 UTC 2004


Paul Roddy wrote:

>Is there a way to configure named to allow for more than one IP address for
>a given A record?  I have 2 servers that are cloned.  I want to share them
>both equally so I was hoping to use DNS to define both IP's of the machines
>but using the same name.  That way, its a 50/50 chance of getting one or the
>other server with connecting.
>
>heres an example point of what I am trying to accomplish
>
>
>$origin foo.bar
>www    IN    A    192.168.1.25
>www    IN    A    192.168.1.47
>
Did you try this? Did it work?

This is a very common configuration actually, but it's obviously a very 
crude load-balancing mechanism (takes no account of the load on the 
machines).

                                                                         
         - Kevin




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