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From: "Aaron Burke" <aburke@nullplusone.com>
To: "Lowell Gilbert" <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>,
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Subject: RE: Mirroring/load-balance two servers
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:09:06 -0800
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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.


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