- From: Ron Daniel Jr. <rdaniel@acl.lanl.gov>
- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 09:03:04 -0600
- To: Renato Iannella <ren@dstc.edu.au>
- Cc: uri@bunyip.com
On Apr 12, 3:35pm, Renato Iannella wrote: > If the URN denotes that uri.host.edu is the > name server, what can happen if the ns is down? > > Since the "uri" part of the hostname is not > specified in the URN, can we try uri2.host.edu ?? DNS allows more than one IP address to be associated with a single FQDN. Typicaly proactice now is to do a gethostbyname(), look at the first IP address, and fail if you can't talk with it. We want client writers to be a little more tenacious in this. Keep the list of addresses, try one. If it fails try another. Keep doing that until you succeed or run out of IP addresses. -- Ron Daniel Jr. email: rdaniel@lanl.gov Advanced Computing Lab voice: (505) 665 0597 MS B287 fax: (505) 665 4939 Los Alamos National Laboratory http://www.acl.lanl.gov/~rdaniel/ Los Alamos, NM 87545 tautology:"Conformity is very popular"
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