Round robin on CNAME

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a7t2jj$j45 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Peter Peters  <peter.peters at civ.utwente.nl> wrote:
>
>On 27 Mar 2002 07:44:25 -0800, Barry Margolin <barmar at genuity.net>
>wrote:
>
>>www1 IN A X.X.X.X
>>www2 IN A Y.Y.Y.Y
>>www  IN A X.X.X.X
>>     IN A Y.Y.Y.Y
>
>And do
>y.y.y.y.in-addr.arpa IN PTR www
>x.x.x.x.in-addr.arpa IN PTR www

I would recommend having the PTR records point to www1 and www2, not www.
That way, if there's ever any outgoing messages from the servers and the
source is logged, you're ensured that it will log the specific name rather
than the generic name.

>for those wanting to reverse check IP-information. Esp. with
>certificates.

I don't know much about how certificates work, so I can't comment on
whether this is true.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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