round-robin using cnames

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

	Only *one* CNAME is legal.  Multiple cnames are illegal.  To
	get multiple CNAMEs you have to enable backwards compatability
	support.

	Mark

> 
> Hello, we are using the following entries:
> bobo     IN   CNAME   name1.dom.ain.
>          IN   CNAME   name2.dom.ain.
>          IN   CNAME   name3.dom.ain.
> 
> to get a round-robin effect.  The problem we're seeing is on some slave 
> servers all queries return the same name for bobo.  A dump of named shows 
> only one value for bobo (name1 for example) which I guess explains why it's 
> not cycling through the different names.  Can anyone explain why that is?  
> Is that a really screwed up way of trying to  achieve something close to 
> load balancing?  the master is v4.9.? whereas the slaves are all v8.2.2p5.  
> Thanks for any help.
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