Eliminate single point of failure for webservers?
- by George Bailey
I know in DNS, that each of the DNS servers will be tried to see if they will respond
I know in email that in the event of a failure it will go to the next one in the list or it will hold the mail for a period of time
As far as I know,, in webservers,, the browser will get one of the webserver IP addresses and try it and if it fails it will give up. Is this correct? If so,, then the only way to direct traffic away from a failed IP address would be with the DNS servers.. and even that would not update immediately?