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The lookup is essentially random. If you point DNS to 2 IP's and one of those goes down, then (without going into detail) half of your requests will fail.
by aeonflux 7y ago
The lookup is essentially random. If you point DNS to 2 IP's and one of those goes down, then (without going into detail) half of your requests will fail.
- LeonM 7y agoYes, that is correct. But it does make it possible for a browser to retry a different IP if a 500 range error, or timeout occurs. But like I said in my other post: I don't know if browsers actually do this.