Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 00:02:47 +0100 From: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: louie@TransSys.COM, drosih@rpi.edu, jdp@polstra.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly Message-ID: <3888E597.9D80E8EF@pipeline.ch> References: <3888E18E.F1CBA39B@pipeline.ch> <46031.948495356@verdi.nethelp.no>
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sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > > > > Second, a domain name can at most a single CNAME record associated > > > with it, and other other record types. BIND will (should) barf on a > > > zone file containing the example you listed. > > > > It does not. It will round-robin over the CNAME's. > > See the documentation for the multiple-cnames option in BIND 8.2.2: > > If yes, multiple CNAME resource records will be allowed for a domain > name. The default is no. Allowing multiple CNAME records is against > standards and is not recommended. Multiple CNAME support is available > because previous versions of BIND allowed multiple CNAME records, and > these records have been used for load balancing by a number of sites. > > So I'd say this is not a good idea. Ah, well, ok. I used it extensively with bind 8.1.2 in an internal application in a big bank to get approx. load distribution with Windumb clients (they always take the first record in the list returned). Anyway, if multi CNAME is no good then do: cvsup IN A 198.104.92.71 ; cvsup1.freebsd.org cvsup IN A 205.149.189.91 ; cvsup2.freebsd.org ... and so on This is legal, is it? -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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