On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 04:09:51PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: > > I have a quick question about how programs linked against the mysql C > libraries handle the following: > > -assume three mysql hosts, say 10.0.0.2, 10.0.0.3, and 10.0.0.4 > -assume a dns name "db.example.com" that returns the following: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] host db.example.com > db.example.com has address 10.0.0.2 > db.example.com has address 10.0.0.3 > db.example.com has address 10.0.0.4 > > If my client program repeatedly connects to "db.example.com" and my > nameserver round-robins through those IPs, will the client also keep > cycling through those? What is the behaviour if one of those hosts does > not respond? Will the client application then try the next one?
The MySQL C client libarary doesn't treat this case specially. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ [book] High Performance MySQL -- http://highperformancemysql.com/ -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
