Multi-Homed Hosts

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Tue Nov 28 15:16:08 UTC 2000


On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 01:10:47AM -0600, Ricky Salmon wrote:
> Using Bind 8, is there a way on the entries for a multi-homed host to set a
> "preference" or "weight" to one of the records?  I haven't found it in any
> documentation or in the "Cricket Book" (DNS & Bind from O'Reilly) and i'm
> hoping there is some obscure undocumented feature...  It seems logical it
> would be life an MX preference, but that does seem to apply in this case....

No.  The best thing I have found has been to give them different names
according to their use.  Depending on what you want the "weight" for,
the routers at each network may be able to give different routes
different weights.

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