setting up round robin

[jeff donovan]

On Jan 23, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote:

> jeff donovan wrote:
>> greetings
>>
>> I'm not having any success setting up round robin dns for my imap
>> servers.
>> here is what I have done,
>>
>>
> [cut]
>> getting errors about multiple RR's, and that the option multiple
>> cnames is obsolete
>>
>> okay,..
>> so um, is there a better way to achieve this goal ?
>>
>
> I had the same problem doing exactly the same thing with MX records.
> It's not ideal, but the only way around it is to repeat the A  
> definitions:
>
> imap1.bar.net.	60	IN	A	192.168.1.1
> imap2.bar.net.	60	IN	A	192.168.1.2
> imap3.bar.net.	60	IN	A	192.168.1.3
> imap4.bar.net.	60	IN	A	192.168.1.4
>
> imap.bar.net.	60	IN	A	192.168.1.1
> imap.bar.net.	60	IN	A	192.168.1.2
> imap.bar.net.	60	IN	A	192.168.1.3
> imap.bar.net.	60	IN	A	192.168.1.4
>
>
> That is, if you want people to be able to go directly to  
> "imap1.bar.net" as well as "imap.bar.net" - if not, you only need  
> the second block.
>
>
> Andy
>


Thanks for the reply.

yes i do need them to be able to access imap1 or imap2 directly.
will give it a go.

thanks