From owner-freebsd-hubs Fri Jan 23 00:30:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA11994 for freebsd-hubs-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 00:30:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freesbee.t.dk (qmailr@freesbee.t.dk [193.163.159.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA11989 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 00:30:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jesper@skriver.dk) Received: (qmail 24876 invoked from network); 23 Jan 1998 08:30:30 -0000 Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 Jan 1998 08:30:30 -0000 Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 09:30:30 +0100 (CET) From: Jesper Skriver X-Sender: jesper@freesbee.t.dk To: John-Mark Gurney cc: John Polstra , Garrett Wollman , hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: need for another cvsup site? In-Reply-To: <19980120175609.38520@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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.