CNAME and Round Robin

Igmar Palsenberg maillist at chello.nl
Tue Nov 14 13:47:13 UTC 2000


On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Chris Clark wrote:

> thanks for the replies... an A record round robin does break SSL sessions.
> Especially behind proxy servers. I have tried the CNAME round robin and it
> worked for a while. Now the DNS server just answers with one record. It does
> not round robin now.... Anybody know what versions of BIND or options will
> round robin on CNAME's????

Round robin on CNAME's used to work, but it's oficially now allowed. Bind
9 refuses to do RR CNAME's.

Using round robin on a SSL server doens't make sense to me, so I guess you
don't have many options.



	Igmar




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