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To: "Aaron Burke" <aburke@nullplusone.com>
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Subject: Re: Mirroring/load-balance two servers
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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
Date: 06 Mar 2003 14:51:09 -0500
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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.

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