Multiple IP address to host
Joseph S D Yao
jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Fri Sep 29 20:51:41 UTC 2000
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 04:10:26PM -0400, Kevin Darcy wrote:
> Joseph S D Yao wrote:
...
> > Not unless you got one of the Distributed Director type of devices. Or
> > rolled your own watchdog software. All the pieces of software that
> > call gethostbyname() do whatever they want with the list of IP
> > addresses they get. Usually ignoring all but the first.
>
> "Usually"? I thought _most_ applications these days were smart enough to do
> the failover.
I could be wrong.
Things could have changed, and certainly many of us are now using Open
Source versions of those tools, rather than the Bell and BSD versions I
remember. I wouldn't have noticed, because I don't usually have this
kind of a situation. Next time I have one of these tools open, I'll
look and see. ;-}
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Joe Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
COSPO/OSIS Computer Support EMT-B
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