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I'm curious...
Re: Load balancing domains
From: Suzanne Swift
Date: Monday, January 29, 2001
Time: 6:47:06 pm
What is the norm in this situation? Do more people set up a load balancing
record for the www.domainname.com or the domainname.com?
Regards,
Suzanne
Spec Simple, Inc.
>At 11:04 AM -0800 1/29/01, Joe LeBlanc wrote:
>>I can set up a load balancing record for www.foo.com, but not for just
>>foo.com. Is this a limitation of the software, or am I doing something
>>wrong? I can't think of any DNS etiquette reason that I wouldn't want to do
>>it. Both hosts load the same web page, and it would be nice to split the DNS
>>for them.
>
>This is a limitation of our current load balance mechanism: A load
>balance record can't have the same name as any other record,
>including the SOA record. For this reason, a load balance record
>can't have the same name as a zone.
>
>We may (and probably will) develop a new load balance mechanism in
>the future that won't have this limitation, but it will then be
>incompatible with the current implementation.
>____________________________________________________________________
>Chris Buxton Men & Mice
>cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!
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