On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 20:52:13 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >>I don't know how the client is expected to choose among the >>responses, > >That depends on how it's coded. > >>nor what GetHostByName returns. > >An alias array and an address array. More precisely, it returns a >pointer to a hostent structure containing 5 data, of which h_length >and h_addr give you the addresses. > So, if IBM were to assign both server IP addresses to a single domain name (IBM has control over this), and if the FTP client were to try the multiple addresses in succession (IBM TCP/IP development, but not SMP/E development has control over this), the OP's availability requirement would be somewhat addressed.
But in many cases, such as ours, there's anFTP proxy involved over which IBM has no control. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
