Round robin on CNAME

[Michael Kjorling]

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Hello Someone,

CNAME, or "canonical name" records, point one node in the DNS tree at
exactly one other node. If you want to have the name "www" resolve to
two different addresses, you can use A or AAAA/A6 records instead:

> www A 10.0.0.1
> www A 192.168.0.1

Of course you can still define other records which carry the same
address data:

> www1 A 10.0.0.1
> www2 A 192.168.0.1


Michael Kjörling


On Mar 27 2002 09:45 +0100, Someone wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to know if it's possible to do round robin based on
> multiple CNAME entries, like that for example: ?
>
> www1
> 	IN	A	X.X.X.X
> www2
> 	IN	A	X.X.X.X
> www
> 	IN	CNAME	www1
> www
> 	IN	CNAME	www2
>
> Because my BIND v9 is complaining:
>
> Mar 27 09:41:02 hostname named[22042]: dns_master_load:
> master/filename:12: multiple RRs of singleton type
>
> Or else how can I achieve this ? Because I would like to do round-robin
> between 2 web servers but still  have valid names to access and
> differentiate them like www1 and www2.
>
> Thanks for your comments
>
> Regards

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