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000887_dcmartin@lib.ucsf.edu _Wed Apr 14 19:34:39 1993.msg
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From: dcmartin@ckm.ucsf.edu (David C. Martin)
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Subject: DNS & WWW
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Yes, DNS already has a facility to allow for multiple machines to be
considered capable of providing some service, either mail exchange (MX)
or providing the names of servers which can identify a host.
MX records are probably closest to what you want, since they allow for
multiple machines to be specified as mail exchange hosts with weighting
for the preferred and non-preferred hosts.
There are also Well Known Service (WKS) descriptions for hosts (e.g. ftp,
telnet, etc...) which would be analagous to advertising WWW, WAIS, Gopher,
etc..
dcm