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?


I have just been thinking about that, but I am looking at doing this for
about 20 - 30 sites and modifying the hosts file and probably doing a
flush of the DNS cache between each check is a little heavy handed.  I
was rather hoping there was some method in the LWP module to direct the
GET request to a specific IP address, rather than letting it work it out
for itself from the supplied URL.

Jamie

P.S. the netcat suggestion looked interesting but this is running from a
Windows host - well it is presently.




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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.
>>>
>>
>> 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.
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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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