ISO or virtual appliance

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Thu Aug 22 11:05:37 UTC 2013


On 22/08/13 11:09, Niall O'Reilly wrote:
>
> On 22 Aug 2013, at 10:49, Phil Mayers wrote:
>
>> * Make the service name a CNAME into another small dynamic
>> (sub-)zone. This is what most DNS-based LB do e.g. www.example.com
>> CNAME www.lb.example.com, then make "lb.example.com" a small,
>> dynamically-updated zone.
>
> or delegate www.example.com as a tiny dynamic zone and update it
> directly.

Sure, that too. One slight advantage of the lb.example.com is that you 
can CNAME multiple things into one dynamic zone, as opposed to a zone 
per-hostname.

Personally I'd just make the whole zone dynamic and stop doing static 
zonefiles, but then that's my taste.


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