Re: Round Robin
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 10:29:30PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote
> On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 17:38:18 +0200, "Neil D. Roberts" writes:
> >www.domain.com is 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.1.2 or 192.168.1.3 in order to
> >have all 100 people get different responses....
> >
> >I have no idea, to create three A records for this domain, or if I need
> >to do something else, any ideas ?
>
> Just 3 A-records will do fine
>
> bash-2.03$ host smtp.austria.eu.net
> smtp.austria.eu.net A 193.81.13.2
> smtp.austria.eu.net A 193.154.160.146
> smtp.austria.eu.net A 193.81.83.3
> smtp.austria.eu.net A 193.154.160.103
>
> Don´t forget the appropriate PTR-records.
>
> More interesting (at least for me) would be trying it with CNAMEs, would
> that be valid?
>
No, becasue a CNAME links a name to an A record; if there's only one
A record, all the CNAMEs will point to the same address.
John P.
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