DNS CNAME round robin alternatives

[Michael Voight]

I wrote to AOL multiple times about the MX - CNAME issue as our
customers for our older DNS/DHCP product kept seeing the error message
in the log.
Good thing the software still returned the correct address information
and mail worked.

Michael

Barry Margolin wrote:
> 
> In article <OF7A49DE05.8DF747B6-ON852567C5.0060E17B at factset.com>,
>  <kmoriarty at factset.com> wrote:
> >I thought multiple A records was a no-no?  If this is the 'right' ay to do
> >this now, great, but I don't want to cause problems, but rather find a good
> 
> Multiple A records are perfectly fine.
> 
> >long term solution to this proble.  I see that it works, but other sites
> >that do this cause problems for some DNS servers.  I seem to recall that
> >when AOL started doing this, it caused problems for various DNS servers (or
> >clients).  I don't remember the details though...