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Paul A Vixie  
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 More options Jul 19 1994, 5:52 am
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
From: vi...@vix.com (Paul A Vixie)
Date: 19 Jul 94 02:40:46
Local: Tues, Jul 19 1994 5:40 am
Subject: Re: Newbie DNS questions

>No.  A given domain name can either have a single CNAME RR attached or
>multiple other RRs, like A, MX, NS, etc.

It turns out that, due to sloppy code (which in this increasingly rare instance
I inherited rather than wrote), multiple CNAME's also work, and given round
robin, are an interesting way to do load balancing.  But don't everybody go out
and use this yet, because I'm considering fixing the bug.
--
Paul Vixie
Redwood City, CA
decwrl!vixie!paul
<p...@vix.com>

 
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