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| location | Sweden | |
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| visits | member for | 2 years, 10 months |
| seen | Apr 26 at 18:28 | |
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I'm a computer science student.
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Mar 5 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Feb 25 |
awarded | Famous Question |
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Jun 1 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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May 17 |
awarded | Notable Question |
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Jan 5 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Sep 21 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Jul 19 |
awarded | Yearling |
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May 19 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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May 14 |
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SSL certificate provider The free StartSSL cert doesn't seem to work with the default browser on Android :( |
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Apr 21 |
accepted | Using multiple A-records for my domain - do web browsers ever try more than one? |
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Mar 23 |
answered | Java hosting service provider? |
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Mar 20 |
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Using multiple A-records for my domain - do web browsers ever try more than one? What do you mean with "This is a decent breakdown on the mechanism for you"? It looks like the browsers do try to connect to the second host, which is what I wanted. And the article you linked to also said that multiple A records are a great solution. |
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Mar 20 |
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Using multiple A-records for my domain - do web browsers ever try more than one? Browsers probably do as you say - let the OS do the DNS lookup, but it return a list with IP-addresses to the Browser. And the question is: What does the most popular browsers do if the first address is unreachable? do they try the second? |
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Mar 20 |
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Using multiple A-records for my domain - do web browsers ever try more than one? No, this is wrong. If I write a Java program and resolve a name with InetAddress.getAllByName("example.com") I get a list with all IP-addresses, so I can choose to start a TCP-connection to all of them if I want. And it's the same if you use getaddrinfo() in C. So it's definitely a choice that the developers do and not the Operating System. The DNS-server only decides in what order the list of IP-addresses is returned. |
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Mar 20 |
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Using multiple A-records for my domain - do web browsers ever try more than one? @iivel: No, that is not true. If I write a Java program and resolve a name with InetAddress.getAllByName("example.com") I get a list with all IP-addresses, so I can choose to start a TCP-connection to all of them if I want. And it's the same if you use getaddrinfo() in C. So it's definitely a choice that the developers do and not the Operating System. |
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Mar 20 |
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Using multiple A-records for my domain - do web browsers ever try more than one? But both nslookup cnn.com on Windows and host cnn.com on Linux returns a list of IP-addresses, so then it definitely depends on the implementation of the browser. |
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Mar 19 |
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Using multiple A-records for my domain - do web browsers ever try more than one? Well, since the browser is the resolver - it depends on the implementation of the browser, as what I know. |
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Mar 19 |
asked | Using multiple A-records for my domain - do web browsers ever try more than one? |
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Nov 30 |
awarded | Citizen Patrol |
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Nov 10 |
accepted | What is needed to add DNSSEC to my site? |
