Louis A. Mamakos wrote:
>
> > > Second, a domain name can at most a single CNAME record associated
> > > with it, and other other record types. BIND will (should) barf on a
> > > zone file containing the example you listed.
> >
> > It does not. It will round-robin over the CNAME's.
>
> If it does, than this is a bug in BIND. The DNS is not defined to
> work this way. Semantically, it doesn't make sense to have more
> than one CNAME record. The CNAME resource record is supposed to
> contain the cannonical name for the domain name that it's associated
> with. There can be only one cannonical name.
>
> And it appears that in the latest BIND, they've seen the error of their
> ways:
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OK, I did it with bind 8.1.2, see my other response to Steinar.
> In any case, this has turned into a debate on how to (ab)use BIND and
> the DNS, and is well off topic.
Back on topic. Do it instead with A records.
Joe Random goes for cvsup.freebsd.org and highly likely wont be
cvsupping more than once a day. Others who do can hardwire to one
specific cvsup server. The best of both worlds with just a few key
strokes and now complies with every imaginable RFC. Uh, I better don't
pray for it.
> > Yea, then all swamp cvsup8.freebsd.org and John has to send another
> > message that there are still cvsup[2-7].freebsd.org idling around.
> > Just kidding... But you get the point?
>
> My only point is that the first response to a problem isn't to necessarily
> pull out emacs and start hacking away on code.
Yea, it is easier to do in a regular zone file then to implement the
network measurement logic into cvsup.
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Andre
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