Search Again: Re: Semi-ot, local DNS lookups From: Men & Mice Support Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 Time: 6:36:28 pm At 6:20 PM -0700 9/22/04, Scott Haneda wrote: >on 9/22/04 5:22 PM, Men & Mice Support at cbuxton@menandmice.com wrote: > >>> Is it valid to have two A records to the same domain? >>> host secure.authorize.net >>> secure.authorize.net has address 64.94.118.32 >>> secure.authorize.net has address 64.94.118.33 >> >> It absolutely is. And you can't be sure which one the curl command >> will end up using, though if there's little enough traffic (i.e. the >> script isn't running more than once at a time), it's likely to be the >> second one. > >Is this sort of a poor mans load balancer? Yes. It's called "round-robin" load sharing. Records are cycled for successive requests, and the browser (or other client software) uses whichever comes first in the result. Chris Buxton Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy Customer Service and Sales Engineer

Messages In This Thread: Semi-ot, local DNS lookups by Scott Haneda on Sep 20, 2004 at 7:59:48 pm Re: Semi-ot, local DNS lookups by Men & Mice Support on Sep 21, 2004 at 2:37:46 pm Re: Semi-ot, local DNS lookups by Steve Fabian on Sep 21, 2004 at 2:45:06 pm Re: Semi-ot, local DNS lookups by Scott Haneda on Sep 22, 2004 at 5:08:50 pm Re: Semi-ot, local DNS lookups by Men & Mice Support on Sep 22, 2004 at 5:24:38 pm Re: Semi-ot, local DNS lookups by Scott Haneda on Sep 22, 2004 at 6:10:58 pm Re: Semi-ot, local DNS lookups by Scott Haneda on Sep 22, 2004 at 6:21:33 pm Re: Semi-ot, local DNS lookups by Men & Mice Support on Sep 22, 2004 at 6:36:28 pm Re: Semi-ot, local DNS lookups by Cayce Will on Sep 23, 2004 at 11:43:47 am Re: Semi-ot, local DNS lookups by Scott Haneda on Sep 23, 2004 at 1:09:54 pm Re: Semi-ot, local DNS lookups by Ken Eddings on Sep 23, 2004 at 2:13:16 pm