Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 19:24:40 -0400 From: "Matthew K. Cowger" <mcowger@bowdoin.edu> To: "Derek C." <coffee@blarg.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dns Message-ID: <3B5A0F38.7050503@bowdoin.edu> References: <F283KfreeJa2ygErNaw00002ce9@hotmail.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20010721160135.00b1bcb0@mail.blarg.net>
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I believe what you are looking for is something called Round Robin DNS.
It is used as a load balancing technique. I dont really know how to do
it, but searching for Round Robin DNS should point you in the right
direction..
Derek C. wrote:
> I think he was asking how to set it up in his DNS server (run nslookup
> yahoo.com and you'll see what I mean)...
>
> In that case, I think he should be a bit more specific about his
> nameserver (e.g name/version, etc...)
>
> Derek
>
> At 05:57 PM 7/21/2001, Sperber wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, andy t wrote:
>>
>> > how can i have to 2 ips resolve from one domain name ?
>> >
>> > such as yahoo.com:
>> >
>> > # host yahoo.com
>> > yahoo.com has address 216.115.108.245
>> > yahoo.com has address 216.115.108.243
>> >
>> > Thank you.
>> >
>>
>> Some hosts have several ips because of backup-servers or servers
>> which are
>> mirrors...
>> Rather useful for bigger companies... (or search engines like yahoo)
>>
>> Sperber
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