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Hamish
Sep 23, 2008Cirrocumulus
Multiple CNAME's...
Question... Why is there a blog in F5's website recommending multiple CNAME records for a name? It pretty comprehensively violates the RFC's and in Bind v9 is also impossible to do (Since bind9 checks...
dennypayne
Sep 24, 2008Employee
I just commented to the original blog post, I have always implemented parallelism using A records. WebAccelerator allows you to specify how many "extra" names to use for a host, so you need an A record, not a CNAME for each one (ie, if you turn the feature on for www.example.com and specify a depth of 2 you need A records for www.example.com, www1.example.com, and www2.example.com). All the A records happen to point to the same place, so I guess that effectively it's like having multiple CNAMEs.
Denny
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