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Data Guard Client Failover

So, I now have my first 11g DataGuard setup and and I did a switchover. Very nice.
I am now looking at failover capability for the client, and am not finding what I'd expect to find in the documents. I have managed to configured tnsames.ora on the client and by adding service_names parameter on the database I can now connect to the primary whichever server it is on. Here is what I'm doing:

Primary is D20AC, Standby is D21AC

To both I added
service_names='D20AC,D21AC'

then for tnsnames.ora I have:
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