Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 09:30:30 +0100 (CET) From: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: need for another cvsup site? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980123092917.24852B-100000@freesbee.t.dk> In-Reply-To: <19980120175609.38520@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
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On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > John Polstra scribbled this message on Jan 20: > > Yes, that would be a lot better. You simply give cvsup.freebsd.org > > three A records, and then the DNS system round-robins the order of > > them in each response, right? > > actually, you can do this with CNAME's even: > test IN CNAME boron > IN CNAME argon > IN CNAME hydrogen No! It isn't "legal", and BIND 8.x won't accept it. > hydrogen,ttyqh,~,514#host test > test.nike.efn.org is a nickname for hydrogen.nike.efn.org > hydrogen,ttyqh,~,515#host test > test.nike.efn.org is a nickname for boron.nike.efn.org > hydrogen,ttyqh,~,516#host test > test.nike.efn.org is a nickname for argon.nike.efn.org > > so: > cvsup IN CNAME cvsup1 > IN CNAME cvsup2 > IN CNAME cvsup3 It works with BIND 4.x, but ... /Jesper -- Jesper Skriver (JS249-RIPE), Network manager Tele Danmark Internet (TDI1-RIPE) One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone bind them.
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