Can we load balance traf[f]ic for CNAME records?

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Fri Dec 14 16:45:04 UTC 2012


In article <mailman.897.1355501135.11945.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 "Novosielski, Ryan" <novosirj at umdnj.edu> wrote:

> Won't the DNS server randomly report the the defined IP addresses?

RFC 6186 is about using SRV records, not round-robin DNS.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Barry Margolin [mailto:barmar at alum.mit.edu]
> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 10:49 AM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org 
> <comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org>
> Subject: Re: Can we load balance traf[f]ic for CNAME records?
> 
> In article <mailman.885.1355477939.11945.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
>  SM <sm at resistor.net> wrote:
> 
> > See RFC 6186.  Verify whether the mail clients support that specification.
> 
> Are there any mail clients that support this yet?

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Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA



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