Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:09:06 -0800 From: "Aaron Burke" <aburke@nullplusone.com> To: "Lowell Gilbert" <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Mirroring/load-balance two servers Message-ID: <AMEMKJNMFLJCJDLFIEDBGEDJCKAA.aburke@nullplusone.com> In-Reply-To: <44k7fcz32q.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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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. Err, you are correct, my mistake. > > > 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. I have personally not read the standard. It is just information thats been given to me by some knowlegable friends. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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