Applescripting Load Balance records

Re: Re: Applescripting Load Balance records

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In a message dated 5/6/00 2:34:46 AM, Chris Buxton wrote:

>At 11:34 PM -0400 5/5/00, JWBaumann@aol.com wrote:
>>I'm trying to Applescript the creation of load balance records with QuickDNS
>>Pro admin. When I record the creation of an empty load balance record, I get
>>this:

<snip>

>I'm told by our engineers that implementing recordability is quite a
>bit of work. I'm not surprised that they didn't bother to clean up
>recording for load balance records, since we figured that load
>balance records wouldn't be used very extensively.

Maybe I should be approaching the whole thing differently. Basically, I want
2 machines to share the load for a number of domains, so if one goes down the
failure is transparent. I thought load balance = round robin. Am I wrong?

<snip>

>Again, I'm not surprised. If you look at the definition of a Load
>Balance record in the scripting dictionary, not all of the fields are
>present. So it was never really intended to be scripted at all.

Future feature request - full scriptability.

<snip>

>I believe you've stumbled across a small collection of bugs. Why are
>you trying to script the creation of load balance records? Could you
>not accomplish the same thing with a single load balance record in
>your primary domain and CNAME (alias) records in your other domains?

I hadn't tried that. Will this work prpoerly with multiple virtual hosts in
WebSTAR? I thought the alias record ultimately resolved to the same virtual
host.

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>[...]
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>> make new MX record at end of document 1
>> set name of MX record 1 of document 1 to "mail"
>> set mailhost name of MX record 1 of document 1 to
>>"mail.linkedresources.com."
>
>Wouldn't you want your MX record's name to be set to ""? The result
>of your code is:
>
>mail.domain. MX 10 mail.linkedresources.com.
>
>when what you probably want is:
>
>domain. MX 10 mail.linkedresources.com.

Obviously I'm still learning this stuff. Thanks.

Jeff Baumann Pray for Elian
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