On 29 September 2016 at 12:02, Tim Daneliuk <tun...@tundraware.com> wrote:

> In the dark and dusty reaches of my elderly DNS experience, ISTR a way to
> set up A records so that the request to resolve a name returns a *list
> of associated IPs*.  This is distinct from DNS RR (I think?) which
> simply returns a different *single* IP for each call (I may well be wrong).
>
> Can some kind soul point me to a relevant explanation of how to do the
> hostname -> multiple IP mapping?
>

Just include multiple A resource records (RRs).   It's up to the client how
it uses those records, and what makes sense there is largely application
specific: round robin, try them in series, etc.


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