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That's not necessarily true. You can have more than one IP address serving the same hostname, and they'll get approximately round-robinned. The usual thing wo
by regularfry 14y ago
That's not necessarily true. You can have more than one IP address serving the same hostname, and they'll get approximately round-robinned. The usual thing would be for these IP addresses to be on different machines. If you `dig www.google.com` you'll see an example.
- dilap 14y agoBut wouldn't you still get partial failure in that case?
- clebio 14y agoWouldn't that just increase latency, rather than induce failure, though?
- dilap 14y agoI was waiting for someone who really knows the answer to jump in, but I don't think so, because a client would have to know to jump back to the DNS again after reaching the IP address failed, which I don't think they typically do. But I might be wrong. Almost want to test it now... Probably 80% of hackernews knows this by heart.