RE: Checking URLS across a cluster.

> What I'm hearing you say is that the DNS is round-robin DNS, so that
there are three possible IP addresses that come back for foo.com.  

 

No, I obviously am not being clear.  The DNS lookup comes back with one
address from the lookup, which is the virtual IP address of the cluster.

I want to be able to avoid using DNS lookup and tell the LWP module when
it does a GET request to use the specific IP address of each host in the
cluster, so I know that I have checked each one as being available and
placed an entry in the ISS log file.   

 

Unfortunately  I can't replace the host part of the URL with the
specific IP address for each host as I need to have the URL looking like
http://hostname.mydomain/ <http://hostname.mydomain/>   as it is
redirected to a specific virtual web site using host headers.

 

Regards Jamie

 

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From: Andy Lester [mailto:andy@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 10 April 2006 14:14
To: J.Slee
Cc: libwww@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Checking URLS across a cluster.

 

 

On Apr 10, 2006, at 6:38 AM, J.Slee wrote:





I expect it just does a DNS lookup on the host portion of the URL

provided, and this will just give back the virtual IP address of the

cluster.

 

What I'm hearing you say is that the DNS is round-robin DNS, so that
there are three possible IP addresses that come back for foo.com.  

 

There's no way that a DNS client can force a given DNS request to come
back with a given IP, at least that I'm aware of.  The issue is one of
DNS, not of Mechanize.

 

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