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Xref: sserve comp.protocols.tcp-ip:27740 comp.unix.bsd:13501 comp.unix.ultrix:21603 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!Germany.EU.net!netmbx.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!irz401!not-for-mail From: hohmuth@irs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Michael Hohmuth) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: How do multi-homed hosts choose the interface? Date: 25 Feb 1994 14:02:29 +0100 Organization: Dept. of CS, TU Dresden, Germany Lines: 15 Message-ID: <2kkst5$hen@irzr17.inf.tu-dresden.de> References: <2khb6f$9fl@breeze.dra.hmg.gb> NNTP-Posting-Host: irzr17.inf.tu-dresden.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <2khb6f$9fl@breeze.dra.hmg.gb>, Anthony Heading <heading@signal.dra.hmg.gb> wrote: > This makes me suspect that multiple A records > are used by trying each address in the gethostbyjingo() structure > in turn, but there seems to be no way of making the DNS server > impose order onto those addresses. This is what I experienced, too, but you can try to override the DNS based hosts database with entries in /etc/hosts on the two machines. (Be sure to have the appropriate setting in /etc/svc.conf on both your Ultrix and your OSF/1 machine, i.e. "hosts=local,bind".) Michael -- Internet: hohmuth@irs.inf.tu-dresden.de