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As I indicated below, you can't have a load balance record named
Re: Load balancing domains
From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Monday, January 29, 2001
Time: 7:26:25 pm
domainname.com.
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Chris Buxton Men & Mice
cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!
At 9:43 PM -0500 1/29/01, Suzanne Swift wrote:
>I'm curious...
>
>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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