Setting preferences for A records

[Brad Knowles]

At 4:47 PM +0100 7/16/01, Matt Edwell wrote:

>  Is it possible in BIND8/9 to set preferences against A records i.e.
>
>  fred.domain.co.uk.  IN   A  10  <ipaddress>
>  fred.domain.co.uk.  IN   A  20   <ipaddress>

	Nope.  Doesn't work.  SRV records work kind of this way, but no 
client programs I know of check for SRV records, so that doesn't 
really help you.

	If you really need this kind of a feature, you need to do it with 
mechanisms outside of the DNS -- typically through a load-balancing 
layer four switch.  I would encourage you to check out the archives 
of the "lb" mailing list at <http://www.vegan.net/lb/>.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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