I think a host table is typically parsed from top to bottom, so your name is
being resolved as soon as the first entry is read, which explains why you
were successful when you rearranged the IP addresses. Even a DNS server
will give you an IP address that's down if there are multiple IP addresses
for the same hostname and it happens to feed you the one that's down. The
point is that whether it's a hosts file or a DNS server, your request for
name resolution only returns one IP address, not a whole list from which you
can try each address.
hth
Lorenzo
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| I recently ran into a situation where a single hostname was assigned three
| different IP addresses for resolution. I understand that this is fine and
| you can assign up to a certain number of IP addresses per hostname.
|
| The first 2 IP addresses weren't "pingable" because these interfaces were
| down, while the third was up and should have replied to a ping of the host
| name. While trying to ping the assigned hostname, only the first IP
address
| in the list was attempted and hence no ping reply.
|
| After changing the host table to contain only the working IP address, I
| could ping the hostname. What gives? Any thoughts?
|
| Jason
|
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