Can a Dns Name Have Multiple Ip Addresses?
Dear Kul, To answer your question in short, yes it can happen. DNS, the Domain Name Service, as you would know, is used to help us resolve Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN) to IP addresses. This is what gives a DNS name multiple IP addresses.

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People also ask, can DNS have multiple IP addresses?

DNS can hold multiple records for the same domain name. DNS can return the list of IP addresses for the same domain name. When a web-browser requests a web-site, it will try these IP addresses one-by-one, until it gets a response.

can a hostname have multiple IP addresses? The hosts file allows no way of distinguishing different "record types" for its resolution. So for hostname to IP address mapping, you only get one IP address per hostname (but multiple hostnames could resolve to the same IP address, which is the opposite).

Just so, why are there multiple IP addresses associated with a single domain name?

The configuration in each network assigns different DNS servers for IP address lookup, which can lead to different IP addresses for one site. The main reason for this is to decrease congestion in the network 10.

Why do servers have multiple IP addresses?

If you have multiple IP networks on the same physical/logical network/vlan it will prevent traffic from being exchanged via the gateway, speeding things up and reducing the load. In order to use different public IP addresses to avoid firewalls or to avoid being blacklisted in SPAM filters.

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