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Ok, this is more of a question than help, i've just then sucessfully linked up two servers, a leaf and a hub. But i'm unsure about the logic of how this works. Normally when you connect to a big irc network your taken to the hub right? Which then decides which server on the network to connect you to and takes you to one of the servers.

How am i able to achieve this? Say i've got two servers zelda and phoenix. Ok so i type the domain to connect to phoenix (this being my hub and zelda the leaf), phoenix.mydomain.com and it puts me onto this server, to use zelda i need to type zelda.mydomain.com how can i make it so when i connect to phoenix it throws me in either of the servers?

Thanks.

You would create a DNS Round Robin for the 2 servers you have. This is usually done by specifying more than 1 IP for an A record.

Example:
A irc.example.com 1.1.1.1
A irc.example.com 1.1.1.2

Where 1.1.1.1 would be zelda's IP, and 1.1.1.2 would be pheonix's IP. When clients connect to your network, the DNS server would automatically decide which server to send them to

Ohh, is that how it works? So it's just like a random selection, i thought it was to do with like link blocks ect.

Thanks very much!