On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, John Horne wrote:
> On 11-Jan-00 at 18:16:40 Dave C. wrote:
> > One thing that CNAMES does allow is for grouping/seperation..
> On 11-Jan-00 at 18:35:59 Gyan Mathur wrote:
> > Isn't it as easy to change the A record?
>
> True generally I guess, just not in our case :-(
Another way is to have your servers have their own IPs addresses - tied to
the physical hardware. Then for each service have an IP address that you
alias onto the box that you want to provide that service
ifconfig hme0:<x> <ip> up
type stuff on Solaris.
Then, if you need to move a service you just shift the 'service' ip
address - and all you need to worry about is the updating of the ARP
tables on your local network - typically a lot quicker than the DNS..
Cheers,
aid
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