DNS CNAME round robin alternatives

Patrick Greenwell patrick at stealthgeeks.net
Fri Aug 6 16:30:35 UTC 1999


On Fri, 6 Aug 1999 kmoriarty at factset.com wrote:

> 
> I understand that CNAME records do not work for round robin purposes in the
> version 8 of bind and that is because it is following the RFC requirements.
> I was wondering if there are other ways through DNS to serve this purpose
> or if you have to switch to a product that is designed to load balance
> based on resources.  I am just starting to look at those options, but was
> hoping to find out what other people are doing.

Is there some reason that you can't use A records?



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