how to achieve redundency through DNS using multiple connections.

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cyr0n_k0r

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Someone had mentioned to be that if you have 2 connections (2 ISP's using 2 different IP's) that instead of relying on a hardware solution such as an RV082 to balance your connections, you can point your software to a domain and let the DNS handle the failover.

Does anyone have any experience in accomplishing something like this?
 
No matter what environment, wheather you are running DNS locally (LAN in Active Directory) or on the internet you want to have some fault tollerance. The best way to do this is to have at a minimum of 2 physical servers. I hope this helps.
 
When you say domain, are you referring to AD? If so, I have no idea, and I would like to know what you are talking about...sounds interesting!
 
no, not active directory.

What I want is for someone to be able to hit a subdomain lets say
"test.domain.com"

I want test.domain.com to point to 2 seperate IP's
68.x.x.x
24.x.x.x

I want a user to type in test.domain.com and when they hit enter, 68.x.x.x is tried first. If they get a sucessful connection.. great, if not, then 24.x.x.x is tried.

This way the DNS is in charge of the load balancing.
 
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