[email protected] said:
>> That won't catch the case where the pool DNS name is used as a server. If we
>> put a simple still-there check in the server case, clients would end up
>> switching servers every time they checked.  I don't see any harm in that.

> I don’t think I understood what this meant.  

I'll try again.

There are 2 cases:
  pool pool.example.com
and
  server pool.example.com

If we fix the pool case, we still have to handle the server case.

I was thinking that the server case would do a DNS lookup and check all the IP 
Addresses.  If one matched, fine.  If not, drop the current IP Address and 
start using one of the new ones.  That would handle the simple case of a 
server changing IP Addresses.

If the name is actually pointing at a large pool that rotates through a lot of 
IP Addresses, it will probably switch to a new IP Address each time it checks. 
 I was trying to say that was OK.


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