In message <55f6815c.3030...@thelounge.net>, Reindl Harald writes: > > Am 14.09.2015 um 07:31 schrieb Harshith Mulky: > > I could not stop asking the question related to this. > > > > I am sorry if this is not relevant to this Topic > > > > Is it not possible to send multiple "A" Records for a same name with > > different IPs. It might be that the bind might be listening on multiple > > IPs on same server > > What would happen if one of the IP interfaces is not reachable? > > the same as when it is a different machine, the client which chose that > record will fail to connect, dns round-robin is for load-sharing and not > failover
Properly written clients will failover and failover quickly. It isn't hard to write a client that will failover. RFC 6555 is all about fast failover when one of the addresses is unreachable. -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
