Beyond DNS...

Thu Jun 4 22:04:20 UTC 1998

On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 05:46:36PM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote:
> But you can still have multiple A records, which does the failover part
> that the original poster wanted.

_If_ the clients get all the addresses from the library, _and_ try
extras when the first one no longer works.  I gather neither of these
behaviors can be depended on, particularly in Wintel clients.

Cheers,
-- jra
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