Search Again: Re: Load Balancing Problems From: Men & Mice Support Date: Thursday, January 6, 2000 Time: 3:22:00 am At 6:33 PM -0600 1/5/2000, Steve Dannaway wrote: >Hello, > >I'm having trouble setting up a load balancing domain (example.com) that >will let me keep the example.com and www.example.com both point to the >website and using ip multihoming (I'll worry about hostname multihoming >later). > >I've got two mirrored sites and this is what I am setting up. > >example.com LOAD >www.example.com CNAME example.com > >The Load Record has two ip's listed for example.com (one on each >server). I can get the load balance to work but I cannot the the CNAME >to work. I would assume that you can't use a cname to a LB record but I >could swear I read that you could on another message. You can certainly have a CNAME resolve to a load-balanced name. However, what you can't do is this: example.com. Load Because of the way we've implemented load balancing, you can't use it for the domain itself. You'll have to use a name within the zone for this: www.example.com. Load ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

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