Question : Multiple DNS Alias (CNAME) with same name

Hello

We currently have a DNS Alias (CNAME) record called Company which points to myserver.domain.co.uk. I want to create another Alias (CNAME) called Company, but points to myserver2.domain.co.uk. This is for redundancy.

Of course, if I do this I get an error back saying there is a conflict, and the current Alias (CNAME) will get deleted.

Is what I'm trying to achieve possible?

Answer : Multiple DNS Alias (CNAME) with same name

No.
weighted DNS records are only available in MX records (for email servers)

there are sever methods of achieving the result your looking for though,

one way is with a router that will redirect a external IP address to a internal failover, Barracuda and Cisco have these kind of routers for example.

another way is using your own DNS servers. DNS servers can have a list of forwarders so basically you set up a DNS server that forwards it's requests to another DNS server that is ALSO your web server and it lists itself as the address for that A record. IF that server is off the first DNS server will use it's SECOND forwarder, which is ALSO a DNS server that lists itself as the A record for that address, etc....

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