Setting rr dns to only return one record?

JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 Jinmei_Tatuya at isc.org
Tue Dec 9 20:25:57 UTC 2008


At Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:59:38 -0700,
"Dustin Lovell" <dlovell at americafirst.com> wrote:

> Greetings all. Is it possible to set up BIND in such a way that if
> there are multiple A-records for a specific host, instead of
> returning all of them in response to a request and only changing the
> order with every second request, the server only returns one
> A-record, and varies that A-record with every second request?

It's not possible.  And in case you're wondering, it breaks the notion
of "resource record sets", so it's unlikely to be implemented in the
future.

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.



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