Azure Traffice Manager External End Points

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Can someone explain to me how to setup a external end point for a fail over model in Windows Azure Traffic manager. I can add the end point to azure through powershell, for example www.mysite.com, but then the tutorials say I would need to change my DNS to point www.mysite.com to my.trafficmanager.net. But wouldnt this create a loop of sorts and never get to my actual server that is hosting the site?

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In the scenario you describe you would first need to define a new hostname for your external endpoint in DNS (i.e. www-1.mysite.com) and configure your webserver to accept requests for that hostname. Once that is working you add the www-1.mysite.com to Traffic Manager as an external endpoint and the finally update DNS for www.mysite.com to point to Traffic Manager.