[17556] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Beyond DNS...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Anderson)
Thu Jun 4 18:16:53 1998
In-Reply-To: <199806042134.RAA29958@Iodine.Mlink.NET>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 18:03:26 -0400
To: Phillip Vandry <vandry@Mlink.NET>, Chris Cappuccio <chris@empnet.com>
From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
Cc: Jonathan Bradshaw <jonathan@NrgUp.Com>, nanog@merit.edu
At 5:34 PM -0400 6/4/98, Phillip Vandry wrote:
>> Multiple CNAMEs are not supported by all DNS servers and are in fact "turned
>> off" by default in BIND 8. Multiple CNAMEs violates DNS protocol-
>
>I took a closer look, and it seems it actually may not be violating
>the protocol because though Dean has specified two, the server only
>ever returns one in response to a single query.
That is how the load balancing works. If you look closer (at 4.9.3 anyway),
it returns a different CNAME on each subsequent request.
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