using IP address in NS record

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:24:12PM -0700, Hu, Geng wrote:
> i am migrating a set of  DNS servers, because the hostname of the name server
> is load-balanced between two servers, is there any problem to use IP address
> in the NS record to specify a name server?

There definitely is a problem.

Try this:

nameserver		IN A	IP1
			IN A	IP2

nameserver1		IN A	IP1
nameserver2		IN A	IP2

@			IN NS	nameserver1
			IN NS	nameserver2

Now you have two distinct names to use in your DNS records.  The use of
numeric suffixes is not required for this: you could call them Chan,
Wu, and Liu and it would still work.  ;-)

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