Failover of DNS in cluster

From: Pang Wai Man Raymond <wmpang_at_se.cuhk.edu.hk>
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 17:14:28 +0800

Hi,

I wonder if I can make use of cluster's feature for DNS lookup. What I have
in mind is that I just need to put a single nameserver IP (instead of no.
of entries) in client's /etc/resolv.conf. This IP is either the service
IP or the alias IP of a member (of course, members are set up as nameserver
and the alias IP will be failover-ed to another member if the DNS
server is down). What this will benefit is that clients don't need to wait
for the lookup if the first nameserver in client's /etc/resolv.conf is
down as in ordinary setup.

I tried this setup but client didn't response to "ping" or "nslookup".
Any idea or alternative or is it feasible?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Raymond
Received on Wed Feb 04 1998 - 10:14:43 NZDT