DNS A record with round robin 1

[member 141630]

Hi,
I'd like to create an A record on my W2K server but with round robin.
I've seen this done on BIND, so for instance

http://www.server.com

has two A records with the SAME priority so there would be a round robin effect here.
I've done the same with my MX records - all OK so I've two mail servers with equal priority to load balance (as there is the option to do it with MX records), but with A records I see no way to do this.....

Anyone know how to create a priority for A records like you can with MX records?

Rgds

Phil Blythe

 

[SilviaS]

Have you tried to create CNAME records?

 

[member 141630]

Tried a CNAME, but I was refused due to it being a duplicate name....

I've seen this done in BIND8 ok with A records
MX records in WIn2K DNS allows me to set a record priority value but not with A records.

I can add multiple HOST entries with the same name for a domain but only the first one is picked up.. the others don't get used when doing a lookup...

 

[Seaspray0]

Open DNS and go to your zone that will contain the records. Right click in the pane on the right and select new host. Give the name of your host (you only type the leftmost part of the FQDN... i.e. if your zone was domain.lan, you type

http://www as

the name for

http://www.domain.com).

The host record will be added. select view, advanced and you will see it is an A record. The host record should be the same name as the one you wish to round robin but have a different ip address. i.e. you should see two

http://www host

records. Now, right click on the server in DNS (not the zone, the server) and select properties and go to the advanced tab. There is a checkbox for round robin... check it. There is no option for priority. The round robin is supposed to rotate them evenly. A restart of the DNS service may be required to enable this properly.

 

[wbg34]

Here is microsofts description on how to set it up.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;168321

And a couple of known issues with setting it up.

DNS server stops using DNS

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=177883

Client Cache

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;245437