How do I setup a "Multi-homed" DNS?

[Berislav Todorovic]

In article <7mj9m7$nc$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>, named at my-deja.com wrote:
> The idea behind it is that I would like our DNS servers to resolve our
> hostname to different addresses based on different factors which I
> would like to specify in the DNS.
>
> The most important factor is where the request came from and to assign
> our closest server IP.

Starting with 8.2.1, RR sorting features were introduced into BIND.
Look into BIND documentation -> options -> sortlist. The example
given in the docs is quite good for understanding the story.

Regards,
Beri


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