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Re: Beyond DNS...


From: Dean Anderson <dean () av8 com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 18:03:26 -0400

At 5:34 PM -0400 6/4/98, Phillip Vandry wrote:
Multiple CNAMEs are not supported by all DNS servers and are in fact "turned
off" by default in BIND 8.  Multiple CNAMEs violates DNS protocol-

I took a closer look, and it seems it actually may not be violating
the protocol because though Dean has specified two, the server only
ever returns one in response to a single query.

That is how the load balancing works. If you look closer (at 4.9.3 anyway),
it returns a different CNAME on each subsequent request.

                --Dean


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