GraniteCanyon 'round robin' DNS adding (multiple www sites error)

anthony apryan at erols.com
Sat Apr 8 04:55:17 UTC 2000


    Hello...
    I have a domain hosted off GraniteCanyon's nameservers and
    have discovered a problem or error on my end. It could be
    simply because I'm not adding it in the correct format, which is
    why i'm asking here....

    Basically I'm trying to add in a DNS for www.myhost.com to
    point to several machines at the same time in case one of them
    is down or temporarly unavailable. I have something like the
    following setup (replacing myhost.com for my real domain name):
myserver.com.            IN  A              my.ip.here
www2.myserver.com  IN  A              my.2nd.ip.here
www3.myserver.com. IN  A              my.3rd.ip.here
www.myserver.com.   IN  CNAME  myserver.com.
                                  IN  CNAME  www2.myserver.com.
                                  IN  CNAME  www3.myserver.com.
    I am farmiliar with Unix DNSing and would use a IN A ip instead
    of a CNAME name, but it seems that Granite Canyon won't allow
    that type of aliasing. Since the above doesn't work, I'm guessing
    they don't support the 'round robin' type feature as well?

    Ideas, comments, fixes? Send'em to my email address since I usually
    don't check usernet please! - Thanks.
- anthony
  Dimensional Internet Services
  apryan at erols dot com





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