RE: [cobalt-users] Re: Simple Question...pointing .net to .com

["Rodolfo J. Paiz \(E-mail\)" <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Actually Rodolfo, A records may return, and MX records usually do
> return, more than one IP#.  It's PTR records that are only supposed to
> return one result.

Wait a minute... you just might have the answer to my redundancy problems
here. First of all, under what conditions would you normally get two IP's
from an A record? Second, let me theorize a setting here:

I get two upstream connections, who don't want to do BGP or anything
similar. They each give me at least a /27 from their address space. Now, I
take *each* server and give it two IP addresses, one from each provider. I
set up DNS to return two IP addresses for each host, again one from each
provider. Wouldn't this mean that, even if one upstream dies, the client
browser can use the other IP to get to me?

Too good to be true, right?

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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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