round-robin using cnames

[Kevin Darcy]

What you're doing violates the RFC's, so it's no wonder that it doesn't work
on some slave servers. Why not just have 3 A records for "bobo" pointing to
the relevant IP addresses? That's the legal and reliable way to do this.


- Kevin

beetle bailey wrote:

> Hello, we are using the following entries:
> bobo     IN   CNAME   name1.dom.ain.
>          IN   CNAME   name2.dom.ain.
>          IN   CNAME   name3.dom.ain.
>
> to get a round-robin effect.  The problem we're seeing is on some slave
> servers all queries return the same name for bobo.  A dump of named shows
> only one value for bobo (name1 for example) which I guess explains why it's
> not cycling through the different names.  Can anyone explain why that is?
> Is that a really screwed up way of trying to  achieve something close to
> load balancing?  the master is v4.9.? whereas the slaves are all v8.2.2p5.
> Thanks for any help.
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