DNS CNAME round robin alternatives

[kmoriarty at factset.com]

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
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...

Thank you,
Kathleen




Patrick Greenwell <patrick at stealthgeeks.net> on 08/06/99 12:30:35 PM

To:   Kathleen Moriarty
cc:   bind-users at isc.org
Subject:  Re: DNS CNAME round robin alternatives



On Fri, 6 Aug 1999 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.

Is there some reason that you can't use A records?




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