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DNS CNAME Configuration

Hi Guys,
I have a domain and I'm using the GoDaddy DNS Services.

Currently it is pointing to the Public IP address of 1 Web Server.

I need to setup a Failover configuration with 2 Web Servers (The two are identical servers) and 1 High Availability Server (The HA simply redirects the call to either Server1 or Server2).

The company where I'm hosting has a free failover option, and they tell me this "The failover configuration provides a hostname, not an IP address, so your DNS record would need to be a CNAME to it."

This obviously means that I have to remove the current "A" record that points to the IP address and create a "CNAME" pointing to the new "HA" hostname.

My question for you is:
Is it possible to create a CNAME alias when there is no "A" record?

Thanking you in advance,
Cargex
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create an A record pointing to your HA ip
A domainname xx.xx.xx.xxx
cname webmname domainname
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Thank you Phil.