Re: Checking URLS across a cluster.

Could you create a script that added/modified entries to your hosts
file that forced the domain you're trying to reach to have a specific
IP address?

On 4/10/06, J.Slee <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Regards Jamie
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> From: Andy Lester [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 10 April 2006 14:14
> To: J.Slee
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Checking URLS across a cluster.
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> On Apr 10, 2006, at 6:38 AM, J.Slee wrote:
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> I expect it just does a DNS lookup on the host portion of the URL
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> What I'm hearing you say is that the DNS is round-robin DNS, so that
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> 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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