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From: "Patrick Burm" <patb@commlitho.com>
To: "Shawn Ramsey" <shawn@luke.cpl.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: mirroring web sites
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 08:36:50 -0700
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BIND does support multiple IPs for one name address, but
Its intention is more for load balancing than a back-up
type mirror. I do not know how or if it handles one of the
IPs being down.

 
> Is it possible to assign the same address 2 IP address, and if one
> IP(first one) doesnt respond, have it go to the second?