On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Eric Fiterman wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Is it possible to have an application like ping or telnet iterate
> through IP addresses for a given hostname, if a previous attempt fails?
>
> For example:
>
> in /etc/hosts:
> ---------------
> 0.0.0.1 testhost
> 0.0.0.2 testhost
> 0.0.0.3 testhost
> ---------------
>
> If I attempt to 'ping testhost', and the first entry (0.0.0.1) fails, is
> there anything to configure which would allow an automatic attempt to
> ping 0.0.0.2? Is this possible?
AFAIK, not with /etc/hosts. You could do round-robin DNS with
named but it will never be 100% of what you want to do. DNS does
not keep track of which hosts are dead or alive.
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