dns A RR as failover

[Holger Honert]

Hi Alex,

with multiple A-records you can only achive load-balancing (round-robin).
Failover has to be handled not by dns but by application(s) such as
HA-cluster.

Regards

Holger

Aleksander schrieb:
> Hi,
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> This question does not concern bind directly, but DNS generally.
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> MX records are setup with priorities to create failover servers. That's 
> nice. But could something like that be done with A records?
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> Say, if I specify two A records for domain.com, which one will the 
> clients use and what if the first one they tried, fails? I can't specify 
> priorities for them like with MX.
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> For example google.com has several A records. How does failover work for 
> A records work in DNS?
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> Thanks in advance,
>        Alex
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