cnames round robin in bind8 doesn't work

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Thu May 9 07:13:30 UTC 2002


> We've been running bind4 and the round robin of cnames are okay.
> Lately i tried bind 8 on a dns with the zone as slave to a
> another master.
> Under this zone, there are cnames mapped to several different
> hosts. 
> Using nslookup to look for that cname, it always returns
> 1 host (same one each time) without round robbing to several
> other hosts
> 
> Is there anything i can set to make it work?
> 

	You should fix the master, multiple cnames are illegal.  That
	being said you can enable multiple cname support in options but
	be aware BIND 9 does not support multiple cnames and DNSSEC
	does not support multiple cnames.

	Mark
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