Host IP pointing to the nearest Server

Hi,
Is it possable to have a hostname pointing to one IP in a AD site and the
same hostname pointing to a different IP in another AD site? I have sevreal
IIS servers in different AD sites but I would like the users to get the
nearest IIS server in there Site but with using one hostname.
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Regards,
Diver Down

"Jazo" <> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> Is it possable to have a hostname pointing to one IP in a AD site and the
> same hostname pointing to a different IP in another AD site? I have
> sevreal
> IIS servers in different AD sites but I would like the users to get the
> nearest IIS server in there Site but with using one hostname.
> --
> Regards,
> Diver Down


By default, no, because of Round Robin, however you can make it work with
Netmask Ordering, but would have to disable Round Robin, but that can affect
other things, that is if it is being used to load balance something else.
Read up on it to gain a better understading and implications.

Description of the netmask ordering feature and the round robin ...Describes
the netmask ordering feature and the round robin feature in Windows Server
2003 DNS. Describes how to use these features together.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/842197

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On 6/25/2009 4:52 PM, Jazo wrote:
> Is it possable to have a hostname pointing to one IP in a AD site and
> the same hostname pointing to a different IP in another AD site? I
> have sevreal IIS servers in different AD sites but I would like the
> users to get the nearest IIS server in there Site but with using one
> hostname.

This is what service names and properly configured DNS search paths are for.

Set up a new Alias / CNAME record for your service in each site's DNS
that points to the actual server hosting said service that you want the
site to connect to. Then make sure that your DNS search paths are set
up properly at each site. This way any body in the company can go to
http://timeclock/ and get to the appropriate system hosting the
"timeclock" service for their local site.

I've done this a number of times for notebooks to find the SMTP server
that I want them to use. You just have to make sure that all the
servers are configured to be have consistently across the sites. I.e.
the all have the same user name and password lists, etc.



Grant. . . .


P.S. I'm replying to this post in addition to your separate post in
microsoft.public.inetserver.iis. (Really you should have sent one post
to both news groups.