Andreas Haupt [mailto:[log in to unmask]] said:
> AFAIK only the site-BDII host names are taken from GOCDB. The ip
> resolution is done on all clients "the standard way" (read: via DNS
> lookups).
Just to be clear: the top BDIIs read the "GIIS URL" field in the GOC DB, not the individual node definitions. That URL will be resolved in the usual way - if it contains an alias it will resolve to multiple nodes, if it contains a node name it will resolve to a single ip address, and if you put an ip address there it will use that directly (but probably that wouldn't be a good idea). If you do have multiple site BDIIs behind an alias you should ensure that they are configured identically, as it can be quite hard to debug a situation where different results are returned depending on which one you read. I don't think any test does a cross-check between the GIIS URL and the node definitions - in any case it isn't forbidden to have site BDII nodes which are currently unused.
Stephen
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