Hi, The subject summarises what I'm trying to do. I'd like to have more control over which remote IP address a glusterfs client is connected to. Initially it would connect randomly to one of the multiple addresses a DNS record would resolve to (so far, simple), but I'd then like to be able to easily "force" it to skip to the next, as if the current one went down. Is this already implemented? (I didn't find it in the wiki) Would it be hard to implement? (and be triggered when a specific SIG is received?) With such a feature, it would be easy to have more control over how load is spread across multiple identical remote servers (which is the setup I'm using). Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) - Linux kernel 2.6.23.14-107.fc8 Load : 1.66 0.98 0.41