Beyond DNS...
Chris Cappuccio
chris at empnet.com
Thu Jun 4 21:26:41 UTC 1998
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Dean Anderson wrote:
| At 2:51 PM -0400 6/3/98, Phillip Vandry wrote:
| >> 2. Why Web services don't have entries like MX hosts do. Why not be able to
| >> set preferences and fall over hosts?
|
| Err, they do. Here's how to set it up: These balance the load, and if one
| machine is down, any browser which handles multiple A records properly will
| still fail over to the other machine.
|
|
| www IN CNAME www1.av8.com.
| IN CNAME www2.av8.com.
|
| www1 IN A 198.3.136.144
| IN A 208.156.100.250
| www2 IN A 208.156.100.250
| IN A 198.3.136.144
|
|
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-
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