[SLUG] Re: Re: DNS question - multiple www servers

[Angus Lees <gusl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

\begin{John Ferlito}
> 	Does the browser actually give up on the first address and go to
> the second. I didn't think it did.

i don't know if it does, but it should.

all clients should try every address given in
gethostbyname()->h_addr_list[]


with Posix1.g (non IPv4-specific stuff) it gets even more interesting,
since the list returned from getaddrinfo() may also contain IPv6
addresses, etc.

if you're using a web proxy, its probably the proxy's job to try them
all.

-- 
 - Gus