>Could you create a script that added/modified entries to your hosts >file that forced the domain you're trying to reach to have a specific >IP address?
I have just been thinking about that, but I am looking at doing this for about 20 - 30 sites and modifying the hosts file and probably doing a flush of the DNS cache between each check is a little heavy handed. I was rather hoping there was some method in the LWP module to direct the GET request to a specific IP address, rather than letting it work it out for itself from the supplied URL. Jamie P.S. the netcat suggestion looked interesting but this is running from a Windows host - well it is presently. ======================================================================== ==== On 4/10/06, J.Slee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > What I'm hearing you say is that the DNS is round-robin DNS, so that >>> there are three possible IP addresses that come back for foo.com. >>> >> >> No, I obviously am not being clear. The DNS lookup comes back with one >> address from the lookup, which is the virtual IP address of the cluster. >> >> I want to be able to avoid using DNS lookup and tell the LWP module when >> it does a GET request to use the specific IP address of each host in the >> cluster, so I know that I have checked each one as being available and >> placed an entry in the ISS log file. > > > >> Unfortunately I can't replace the host part of the URL with the >> specific IP address for each host as I need to have the URL looking like >> http://hostname.mydomain/ <http://hostname.mydomain/> as it is >> redirected to a specific virtual web site using host headers. > > > >> Regards Jamie >
