>>> 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 >> >> 1. Client performs DNS lookup and gets pointed to host2. All is well. >> 2. 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