On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:55:11 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote: > >Wouldn't it be nice if you could specify a pair of server addresses to SMP/E >such that if one failed it would automatically try the other? > Can't something like this be done by the DNS, where one domain name can resolve to multiple IP addresses:
504 $ nslookup ECCGW01.BOULDER.IBM.COM Server: 192.168.0.1 Address: 192.168.0.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: ECCGW01.BOULDER.IBM.COM Address: 207.25.252.197 but: 505 $ nslookup www.google.com Server: 192.168.0.1 Address: 192.168.0.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: www.google.com canonical name = www.l.google.com. Name: www.l.google.com Address: 74.125.45.106 Name: www.l.google.com Address: 74.125.45.147 Name: www.l.google.com Address: 74.125.45.99 Name: www.l.google.com Address: 74.125.45.103 Name: www.l.google.com Address: 74.125.45.104 Name: www.l.google.com Address: 74.125.45.105 I don't know how the client is expected to choose among the responses, nor what GetHostByName returns. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
