cnames round robin in bind8 doesn't work

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Thu May 9 19:29:24 UTC 2002


s11976 at net2.hkbu.edu.hk wrote:

> 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?

Multiple CNAMEs are illegal. Find another way to do whatever it is that
you're trying to do.


- Kevin




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