multiple-cnames support in 8.2.2-P5

[Kevin Darcy]

Schaefer, Paul A wrote:

> >I believe all versions of BIND 8 still support multiple-cnames, but the
> >option is terminated with extreme prejudice in BIND 9.
>
> >In the long term, SRV records should give you the weighting capability
> >you desire.
>
> >- Kevin
>
> On p. 411 in my 3rd edition of DNS and Bind, it says:
> "Unfortunately, we don't know of any clients that support the SRV record
> yet"
>
> That sounds bad.  I think the SRV record might possibly solve my problem
> somehow but it would have to work.  In the 2+ years since the 3rd edition
> came out, has support for SRV has become pretty standard?

Unfortunately, no. Some of us are trying to lobby for the inclusion of
SRV records in Mozilla (see
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14328). However, this is not a
trivial programming task. There's no guarantee that Mozilla will support
SRV. If it does, though, I'm hoping that other browser makers (hint,
hint) will pick up SRV support in order to be competitive. Actually, it's
ironic that SRV was originally championed by a certain organization (which
shall remain nameless), and used extensively by some of their infrastructure
products, but their own, very popular browser, doesn't support SRV...


- Kevin