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

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Rodolfo J. Paiz (E-mail)" wrote:

> 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:

Round-robin, yes.  Redundancy, no.

> 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?

No, it means some requests will go through and others won't.

> Too good to be true, right?

Right.

Jeff
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