CNAME and Round Robin

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Mon Nov 13 01:53:38 UTC 2000


		I'm confused.  What has SSL got to do with CNAMES?  SSL encrypts the
  packets, not the IP address.

			Danny
At 05:31 PM 11/12/00 +0100, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
>
>On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Mathias K=F6rber wrote:
>
>>=20
>>=20
>> You cannot have a CNAME and other data (other than
>> SIG and NXT) for the same label (left-hand-side).
>> -> you can only have 1 CNAME for one label.
>> There was an option that allowed multiple CNAMEs
>> in earlier versions of BIND, but it's considered
>> a BAD IDEA (and is no longer in BIND-9!)
>>=20
>> Instead of using CNAMES for round-robin, use the
>> A records instead.
>
>There is no way that works with SSL. And that how it should :-)
>
>Workaround is a subdomain for the SSL stuff.
>
>
>
>=09Igmar
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