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Re: Round Robin: msg#00177

Subject: Re: Round Robin
According to Tobias Lindgren:
> Paul,
> 
> the simplest way of doing this is just to add two or more RRs, eg.;
> www   IN      CNAME           my1wwwserver.mydomain.com
> www   IN      CNAME           my2wwwserver.mydomain.com
> 
> Note that round robin isn't a way of handeling failover. Also, setting a =
> TTL for these records is probably recommended to gain efficiency since =
> many clients cache their answeres (win32 for example).

This is an illegal configuration. There can be only one CNAME for a RR.

The correct solution would be to use multiple A records or to use one CNAME
to a RR with multiple A records.

-Ed




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