Host Records Priority -- Bind 9.2.4

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Fri Oct 3 08:06:59 UTC 2008


On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:26:25AM +0530,
 Saju C <csajukuttan at hotmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 10 lines which said:

> Please confirm whether we can create A Record PRIORITY using the
> current bind version or not.

[A records? People still use them? Not everyone is running IPv6?]

The only solution is probably the SRV record, which allows to define
priorities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record

> If not possible in which version it is available and how?

It is a DNS issue. The DNS protocol does not have provisions for this
sort of things. No implementation can do it.


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