On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:24 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > 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. > Thanks John.