Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 22:01:33 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> Cc: Eric Fiterman <fiterman@torrentnet.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multiple IP addresses in /etc/hosts Message-ID: <20010208220133.E1453@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102081106440.99347-100000@cody.jharris.com>; from nick@rogness.net on Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:09:01AM -0600 References: <3A82CC57.3D1F5AB4@torrentnet.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102081106440.99347-100000@cody.jharris.com>
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On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:09:01AM -0600, Nick Rogness wrote: > 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. Well, as far as ping goes you could do this in a very simple way with a script that parses the hosts file and presents each IP as an argument..or am I missing something here ? Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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