Search Again: Re: load balancing From: Men & Mice Support Date: Thursday, January 6, 2000 Time: 11:17:00 pm At 3:54 PM -0700 1/6/2000, Cameron Knowlton wrote: >> >>I use the same server for both smtp and pop, and did start out naming it >>mail.xxx.xxx for simplicity. >> >>I'm still not clear about the benefits of using CNAME over an A record, >>unless IP numbers switched about, for simple service. >> >>paul > >in a clean DMS, there should never be two A records for the same IP, correct? I saw that in one of the RFC's as a design goal, but in practice it can be unworkable due to the restrictions placed on CNAME aliases. DNS wasn't designed with the idea of more than one name per machine - it was designed before the ".com" madness, before the concept of hosting multiple websites on one machine... ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

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