Disabling round robin

Michael Kjorling michael at kjorling.com
Sat May 5 00:18:48 UTC 2001


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If the clients can be distinguished by their IP, I would use views to
accomplish this. If not, I see no immediate solution. However, I am
sure there is an option to turn off round robin in BIND 9 as well.
Have you consulted the ARM?


Michael Kjörling


On Fri, 4 May 2001 liz.marks at clorox.com wrote:

> We have a network with both token ring and ethernet clients. Our DNS
> servers
> and many other systems have both token ring and ethernet interfaces. We use
> the same
> name for the token ring and the ethernet addresses in DNS. We also have
> clients which
> are only ethernet or token ring.
>
> Example:
>
>    jbs003 xxx.xxx.56.112 (token ring)
>    jbs003 xxx.xxx.64.145     (ethernet)
>
> We want the token ring clients to get the token ring address when making
> a DNS query and the same for the ethernet clients.
>
> We are using BIND 8 with "Round robin NO" configured in /etc/named.conf.
> However, this is not recognized in BIND 9.1.1.
>
> How can we disable round robin in BIND 9.1.1? Or is there another method to
> deal with this.
>
> Thanks,
> Liz Marks

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