> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thomas Cameron > Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 12:11 PM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: OT: DNS Failover > > > If you are looking for failover of the looked-up addresses, in many > > cases you can always give out multiple addresses by > including them as > > A records for the same name. Browsers seem to be very good > at failing > > over on the client side if some of the returned addresses > don't work. > > Have you had success at that? I've found that Windows > clients tend to cache DNS results no matter what your TTL is, > and to only use the first IP address they get until their > internal cache expires. You basically have to run ipconfig > /flushdns to make a Windows box dump the IP address and > re-query the DNS server. > > Thomas > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > Its good to know that this isn't as simple an answer as it seems it should be, I'll be testing the multiple A record possibility over the next week or two, I'll post the results. From what I understand having multiple A records can work in many occasions, but as far as DNS is concerned it wasn't designed to do that. -Mike
