DNS CNAME round robin alternatives

[Sam Shteingart]

Actually, round robin for CNAMEs should be working in BIND 8.2.1, but it
doesn't, because of the bug.  The bug is fixed in BIND 8.2.2 which will go
alpha soon.  To get CNAME round robin specify the following in named.conf

options {
    ....
    rreset-order {
        class ANY type CNAME name "*" order cyclic;
        order fixed;
    };
};

kmoriarty at factset.com wrote:

> I understand that CNAME records do not work for round robin purposes in the
> version 8 of bind and that is because it is following the RFC requirements.
> I was wondering if there are other ways through DNS to serve this purpose
> or if you have to switch to a product that is designed to load balance
> based on resources.  I am just starting to look at those options, but was
> hoping to find out what other people are doing.
>
> Thank you,
> Kathleen
>
> ________________________________________
>
> Kathleen Moriarty
> FactSet Research Systems
> Kathleen_Moriarty at FactSet.com

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