Excellent idea. As for the priorities with DNS that would emulate something similar to mx records, I was thinking the same thing as I was typing my question out.
Thanks for the idea, Corey
Actually, this made it into an RFC several years ago, and is implemented by adding SRV records to the DNS specification. Have a look at:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2168.txt
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2782.txt
Microsoft uses it in their Active Directory service in Windows 2000/2003, but I don't know of any webbrowsers that support this yet.
Some more useful ideas:
- Set the TTL for your DNS-records to something extremely low and update them as soon as your primary connection goes down. For example, DynDNS.org uses a 60-second TTL.
- For e-mail, you can set up a second MX-record pointing to your second internet connection
- Find an ISP that can provide you with a backup connection that allows you to use the same IP range as the primary connection
Maarten
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