On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:09:01AM -0600, Nick Rogness wrote:
> 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.
Well, as far as ping goes you could do this in a very simple
way with a script that parses the hosts file and presents each
IP as an argument..or am I missing something here ?
Cliff
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