[17601] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Load balancing/Multiple CNAME's (Was: Re: Beyond DNS...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Shields)
Sun Jun 7 14:20:42 1998
From: shields@crosslink.net (Michael Shields)
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To: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com>
Cc: Stephen Sprunk <sprunk@paranet.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: 07 Jun 1998 18:14:33 +0000
In-Reply-To: Studded's message of "Sat, 06 Jun 1998 10:51:41 -0700"
In article <357981AD.D7950B99@san.rr.com>,
Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> wrote:
> In any case, all this does is reinforce Paul Vixie's statement in the
> FAQ that I quoted previously. Basically he said that multiple CNAME's
> are allowed now, but may go away at some point in the future. That
> doesn't mean it's not a valid tool now, especially since there aren't
> any better tools yet.
It's not wise to deploy more instances of something which is
clearly deprecated.
--
Shields, CrossLink.
