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Date:      Fri, 23 Jan 1998 09:30:30 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: need for another cvsup site?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980123092917.24852B-100000@freesbee.t.dk>
In-Reply-To: <19980120175609.38520@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>

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On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, John-Mark Gurney wrote:

> John Polstra scribbled this message on Jan 20:
> > Yes, that would be a lot better.  You simply give cvsup.freebsd.org
> > three A records, and then the DNS system round-robins the order of
> > them in each response, right?
> 
> actually, you can do this with CNAME's even:
> test    IN      CNAME   boron
>         IN      CNAME   argon
>         IN      CNAME   hydrogen

No! It isn't "legal", and BIND 8.x won't accept it.
 
> hydrogen,ttyqh,~,514#host test
> test.nike.efn.org is a nickname for hydrogen.nike.efn.org
> hydrogen,ttyqh,~,515#host test
> test.nike.efn.org is a nickname for boron.nike.efn.org
> hydrogen,ttyqh,~,516#host test
> test.nike.efn.org is a nickname for argon.nike.efn.org
> 
> so:
> cvsup	IN	CNAME	cvsup1
> 	IN	CNAME	cvsup2
> 	IN	CNAME	cvsup3

It works with BIND 4.x, but ...

/Jesper

-- 
Jesper Skriver (JS249-RIPE), Network manager      
Tele Danmark Internet (TDI1-RIPE)

One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them,
One IP to bring them all and in the zone bind them.




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