Search Again: Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com From: Men & Mice Support Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2001 Time: 9:46:42 pm At 2:50 PM -0700 5/8/01, Stephen Chiang wrote: >Here's my situation: > >I've got two Webstar servers being load balanced by QDNS using the load >balancing plug-in. > >So in my QDNS table, I have the record: > >www.workbook.com load hosts:2 > >I don't have any A records for www.workbook.com. Everything works okay this >way... > >Now, when I add the following: > >workbook.com load hosts:2 (same servers as above) > >my QDNS server stops responding to queries... is this a bug or >misconfiguration? It's a limitation of our implementation of load balancing. A load balance record can't have the same name as any other record; consequently, it can't have the same name as a zone (a domain file in the old terminology). The same limitations apply to CNAME records. Thus, there is no way in QuickDNS (any version) to load balance the name of a zone. >and take out the above and add the following instead: > >workbook.com CNAME www.workbook.com > >this just flat out doesn't work. Should work right? It does on Windows DNS >(with only one www server). No, it doesn't work. That's an illegal CNAME record. QuickDNS Server for Mac OS 8/9 properly rejects that when loading the zone. If Windows DNS (MS DNS) accepts it, that will cause other random problems with the rest of your zone. In BIND and those servers derived from BIND, if you try this, the entire zone will be considered broken by the server, which will have serious consequences. >What I am wondering is if I am making configuration mistakes or what because >both of the above seem like logical entries into the name table. It seems logical until you understand that: - a CNAME record is more than simply a way to associate one name with another name's IP address, and - a load balance record is a delegated subdomain (or subzone). It doesn't look like that, but that's how it's implemented underneath. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!

Messages In This Thread: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Stephen Chiang on May 8, 2001 at 1:17:40 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Steve Boley on May 8, 2001 at 1:45:28 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Philip Butler on May 8, 2001 at 1:49:31 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Stephen Chiang on May 8, 2001 at 1:59:06 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Matthew Seifert on May 8, 2001 at 2:14:34 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Jeff Folk on May 8, 2001 at 2:36:01 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Peggy Thomson on May 8, 2001 at 2:39:21 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Stephen Chiang on May 8, 2001 at 2:51:15 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Peggy Thomson on May 8, 2001 at 3:00:30 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Global Homes Webmaster on May 8, 2001 at 3:50:38 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Steve Boley on May 8, 2001 at 6:55:56 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Steve Boley on May 8, 2001 at 7:05:19 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Men & Mice Support on May 8, 2001 at 9:46:42 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Global Homes Webmaster on May 9, 2001 at 9:54:24 am