Many thanks to all who replied: (sorry if i miss some of you)
Michael Cunningham
Hubert Seales
Dan Brown
Mark Andrews at isc.org
Erin Jones
Scott D. Yelich
It wound up being a known problem in Bind 8.2.1 as Mark Andrews pointed out
to me. All i had to do was get the latest beta of 8.2.1 and i was good to
go. thanks again Mark.
Original message below:
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Eric Lewandowski System Administrator
lewandow@cs.odu.edu Old Dominion University
http://www.cs.odu.edu/~lewandow Computer Science Dept.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark_Andrews@isc.org <Mark_Andrews@isc.org>
To: Eric Lewandowski <lewandow@cs.odu.edu>
Cc: bind-users@isc.org <bind-users@isc.org>
Date: Thursday, September 02, 1999 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: Bind 8.2.1 and multiple cnames
>
>> I just recently moved from bind 8.1.X to bind 8.2.1 and now our multiple
>> cnames do not work. What i mean by not working, is this:
>>
>> lab IN CNAME machine1.foo.com
>> lab IN CNAME machine2.foo.com
>> lab IN CNAME machine3.foo.com
>>
>> This should allow people who telnet, rsh, etc to lab.foo.com to get a
>> different machine each time they shell to lab. If i do nslookup lab, i
get
>> the same machine each time, it doesnt scroll through the list anymore.
>>
>> i have added the option multiple-cnames yes; to our named.conf. Note,
that
>> this is the same named.conf that worked for 8.1.X. I have watched syslog
>> for any errors when starting named, and no errors at all came up. Any
help
>> would be great.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> ======================================================
>> Eric Lewandowski System Administrator
>> lewandow@cs.odu.edu Old Dominion University
>> http://www.cs.odu.edu/~lewandow Computer Science Dept.
>> ======================================================
>
> Known problem fixed in the current beta
> ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/testing
>
> Mark
>--
>Mark Andrews, Internet Software Consortium
>1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
>PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@isc.org
>
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