Worst case, if it's a long term outage (or planned, for that matter), can add the down server's IP address to a functioning Citrix Server. -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Braebaum, Neil Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 10:25 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Round Robin DNS in W2K That's why there's the "pretty short TTLs, and a bit of optimism." in my message. With short enough TTLs on the appropriate records (if you're that cavalier), or the zone (if you're that cavalier ;-)), it will likely deal with servers being down. Neil > -----Original Message----- > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Pitsch > Sent: 10 September 2004 15:21 > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [THIN] Re: Round Robin DNS in W2K > > And hope that none of your servers go down because users will > still be redirected to down servers unless you manually > change the DNS. > > Jeff Pitsch > > -----Original Message----- > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Braebaum, Neil > Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 10:15 AM > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [THIN] Re: Round Robin DNS in W2K > > Multiple addresses for A records, pretty short TTLs, and a > bit of optimism. > > Neil > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Spriggs Jon > > Sent: 10 September 2004 15:11 > > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: [THIN] Round Robin DNS in W2K > > > > Just out of interest, I have a DNS within my domain, and I've > > heard that an easy way to set up a simplistic form of load > > balancing is to use Round Robin DNS. I'm using Windows 2K, > > how would I go about doing this? > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Jon Spriggs *********************************************** This e-mail and its attachments are confidential and are intended for the above named recipient only. If this has come to you in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail from your system. You must take no action based on this, nor must you copy or disclose it or any part of its contents to any person or organisation. Statements and opinions contained in this email may not necessarily represent those of Littlewoods. Please note that e-mail communications may be monitored. The registered office of Littlewoods Limited and its subsidiaries is 100 Old Hall Street, Liverpool, L70 1AB. Registered number of Littlewoods Limited is 262152. ************************************************ ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor triCerat: Have you had your fill of printing support calls, unauthorized apps running on unsecured Terminal Servers, profile headaches, and application performance problems? Join us and learn how you can have a less demanding on-demand enterprise! http://www.tricerat.com/?page=events#register ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thin.net/links.cfm *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thin.net/citrixlist.cfm ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor triCerat: Have you had your fill of printing support calls, unauthorized apps running on unsecured Terminal Servers, profile headaches, and application performance problems? Join us and learn how you can have a less demanding on-demand enterprise! http://www.tricerat.com/?page=events#register ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thin.net/links.cfm *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thin.net/citrixlist.cfm