Dear Colleagues,
I have HostA and HostB which both register service XXX with Consul. The hosts both pass the health checks so a DNS query for “XXX.service.consul” returns 2 IP addresses in round-robin order.
Is there a way to tell Consul that HostB is really a backup/failover service, so while HostA is alive and healthy, HostB’s IP address should not show in DNS (i.e. should be excluded from DNS responses)?
It’s true I can assign different weights but this does not affect A records, only SRV records.
Have I asked something too trivial and stupid, or something technically impossible?
Maybe it’s due to weekend and everyone was enyoing it? Stay calm. The guys will answer your question. 
Judging from https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1584 being still “Open” think Consul cannot do what I was asking for.
OK, I see. Have you tried the third-party solution mentioned in the last post?
I have not, because it is not clear to me from the README how to make hobson return the IP address of a particular node (designated as master), and not just an arbitrary address (even consistently the same over time).