Unique ip response with multiple A with bind 9?

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Fri Dec 28 16:52:16 UTC 2001


In article <a0i6r3$rie at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Cesar Hernando <chernando at banesto.es> wrote:
>We need a bind configuration similar as round robin, but ONLY an ip
>address should be returned at each query. This is because a software
>does not understand any result with more than one ip.

That software is broken.

>How could we implement this behaviour with bind 9?

You can't.  There's no excuse for such misbehavior in the client software.
If it only cares about one address, it should just ignore the rest like
most software does.

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