Multiple CNAME alternantive?

[Dave Sparro]

On 8/19/2010 10:52 AM, Steve Arntzen wrote:
> I would like to resolve dns.ourdomain.com to a list of our DNS server
> names and possibly their IPs.
>
> As we use many DNS servers (and or views) for our different development
> environments, it would be very helpful for the developers to easily find
> the name and IP of the proper name server to use.
>
> EXAMPLE:
>
> A lookup for dns.ourdomain.com would result in:
>
> nsdev1.ourdomain.com    192.168.100.10
> nsdev2.ourdomain.com    192.168.100.11
> nstest1.ourdomain.com   192.168.100.12
> nstest2.ourdomain.com   192.168.100.13
> nsprod1.ourdomain.com   192.168.100.14
> nsprod2.ourdomain.com   192.168.100.15
> etc.
>


I don't think I'd do that in DNS.
I'd point an A record for that name to a server that was running a 
simple web server that would spit out the list for any HTTP request, and 
maybe even a modified telnet daemon that would spit out the list upon a 
connection as well.  That way your users would have a simple, relatively 
universal command line entry like "telnet dns.example.com" to use.

-- 
Dave