On 03/03/11 4:12 PM, aurfalien at gmail.com wrote: > 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? a given client will latch onto one of the IPs, try it, and get a timeout error, (or at best a ICMP "Host Not Reachable" if ICMP isn't blocked by a firewall). It won't go trying other IPs.