Supporting Multiple CNAMEs for a Domain

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Thu Oct 2 22:12:23 UTC 2008


In article <gc3gfg$p7j$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Will" <westes-usc at noemail.nospam> wrote:

> How do you support multiple CNAMEs for a host - to support round robin - in 
> BIND 9.3.0?

You don't.

> 
> When we insert this into the zone file it fails the zone:
> 
>     test    CNAME    www1.domain.com.
>                CNAME    www2.domain.com.
> 
> Simply commenting out the second CNAME the zone works again.

Use multiple A records, not multiple CNAME records.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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