Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 11:09:01 -0600 (CST) From: Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> To: Eric Fiterman <fiterman@torrentnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multiple IP addresses in /etc/hosts Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102081106440.99347-100000@cody.jharris.com> In-Reply-To: <3A82CC57.3D1F5AB4@torrentnet.com>
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On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Eric Fiterman wrote: > Hi: > > Is it possible to have an application like ping or telnet iterate > through IP addresses for a given hostname, if a previous attempt fails? > > For example: > > in /etc/hosts: > --------------- > 0.0.0.1 testhost > 0.0.0.2 testhost > 0.0.0.3 testhost > --------------- > > If I attempt to 'ping testhost', and the first entry (0.0.0.1) fails, is > there anything to configure which would allow an automatic attempt to > ping 0.0.0.2? Is this possible? AFAIK, not with /etc/hosts. You could do round-robin DNS with named but it will never be 100% of what you want to do. DNS does not keep track of which hosts are dead or alive. Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> - Keep on routing in a Free World... "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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