DNS load balancing with CNAME possible?

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Old 04-19-2005
John Wrate
 
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Default DNS load balancing with CNAME possible?

Hi all.


I have 2 dsl connections with dynamic ip addresses which have ports 25
and 110 forwarded to the same host. I want to balance the load between
the two dsl Internet connections by doing this:

pop.mydomain.com. 300 IN CNAME dsl1.gotdns.com.
IN CNAME dsl2.gotdns.com.


But, the gotdns.com domain is not managed or hosted by me. What it is
is a free service (by dynip.org) where I have registered and that will
update the ip address of either of the dsl connections in case my ISP
changes it.

Is it possible to do this? I tried and my dns will only resolve for
pop.mydomain.com with the last CNAME in the list. Is there any way to
do this and if so what am I doing wrong? When I use ip addresses (A
type records) it works very nice.

Finally, my named server is running on a Linux host and while I
haven't yet figured out how to know the bind version, the man pages
displays "4th Berkeley Distribution"

Any help will be appreciated.


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