Re: OT: DNS Records

In article <op.syyy6ooo3jnr2w-wnt@xxxxxxxxxx>,
"William Tasso" <spamblocked@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Andy Jacobs <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > ...
> > We want to set up a server to act as a backup. What we don't want is,
> > for
> > example, to FTP into www.mydomain.com one day and get one box and then
> > get
> > another box the next day.
> >
> > Does that make sense?
>
> Yes - after two reads.
>
> Option #1: point your FTP client at the IP-Address of choice
>
> Option #2: create an A record for FTP connections

Thanks William. But what about visitors to the site? Would some go to
one box and some to the other? There are two ways that this *might*
work.

1. Load balancing - albeit in a non controllable way. i.e. half the
visitors go to ns.domain1.com and half go through ns.domain2.com. (Maybe
not half, but 'some' proportion)

2. Redundant - ns.domain1.com is down so requests go to ns.domain2.com

And what about e-mails? Could you get a case where an e-mail lands in
the popbox on the backup server and the client can't pick it up until
his machine decides to take the route to the second machine?

Andy

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www.redcatmedia.net
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