4 Mar
2011
4 Mar
'11
1:56 a.m.
Hi Sean,
Can you explain as I may be planning this for a site.
So if I have 2 identical servers, each with there own IP, how will one of them going down cause issues?
I'm assuming multiple A records for the same host will be handled fine by the client lookup?
example.com resolves to: host1.example.com - A.B.C.D host2.example.com - W.X.Y.Z
- Client performs DNS lookup and gets pointed to host2. All is well.
- host2 goes down. DNS for example.com still resolves to host2,
which is unreachable. Site is down.
Yeah, what they said! I've done a few of these myself if you want to chat further off the list about your specific needs and so forth. I don't contract or anything, but I'm down to give advice.
~Sean Hart