Date: 06 Mar 2003 14:51:09 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: "Aaron Burke" <aburke@nullplusone.com> Cc: "Jonas Fornander" <jonas@netwood.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mirroring/load-balance two servers Message-ID: <44k7fcz32q.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <AMEMKJNMFLJCJDLFIEDBKEDDCKAA.aburke@nullplusone.com> References: <AMEMKJNMFLJCJDLFIEDBKEDDCKAA.aburke@nullplusone.com>
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"Aaron Burke" <aburke@nullplusone.com> writes: > To my knowlege, yes. Lets say you had a server called www. > You would just give it two addresses in your domain configuration > files. > > www IN CNAME 12.34.56.78 > www IN CNAME 9.10.11.12 > www IN CNAME 65.4.3.21 That should be A records, not CNAMEs. > The DNS standard will give out a different address for every > query. To get the address 12.34.56.78 twice, you would have > to make 4 unique queries for the server records. Where does the standard say that? Most servers will return the records in the same order each time by default, and my reading of the standards is that this is perfectly acceptable behaviour. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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