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Muhammad_Irfan1
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Aug 27, 2015

IP DNS (GTM) what if clients are using IP address to access application instead of URL.

I have a question that i know that if client is putting this in URL xyz.com and routed to primary DC and when its unavailable then routed client to DR DC.   What is if client is accessing the app...
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arpydays
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Aug 27, 2015

If the client uses IP instead of hostname then the client application won't even use DNS/GTM and will go direct. If you want a GTM/DNS based redundancy design (rather than a routing solution) you'll need to use FQDNs. So 1. is your best option 2. won't work as DNS is hostname to IP resolution.

 

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