Re: a question on heirarchy

Yes, it would surely work for the DNS. But the problem with this is that:

        - what if one of the proxies is down? and...
        - the client checks for the address of "proxy" and gets the ip
          address of the dead one?

Cheers,
Mike

On Wed, 16 Apr 1997 Jason.Haar@trimble.co.nz wrote:

>On Tue, Apr 15, 1997 at 12:43:25PM -0500, Graham Toal wrote:
>> > i have a server named "A" and another named "B". they have the same
>> > alias/nickname which is "proxy". SQUID is executing in both server. i had
>>
>> If you've done it in the DNS, the behaviour is undefined and depends
>
>What you need to do is defined your "proxy" name with two IP addresses - and
>use a recent named server (e.g. 4.9.4).
>
>proxy IN A 1.2.3.4
> IN A 1.2.3.6
>
>named will then round-robin those addresses to any query on "proxy". This
>removes any issues of you having to rely on the client having up-to-date
>networking logic.

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