Re: more than 8 answers

Hello Matthew,

The customer is using an ads system from imlive.com and those guys
asked us to insert 16 A records for the same subdomain in order to be
used with the ads system properly.
The ads are not working if the DNS returns only 8 of the answers.

I know the common behaviour for the DNS servers is to return only 8
answers, but I don't really have a choice here.

I need to know if it's possible for TinyDNS to return more than 8
answers, and if yes, what needs to be changed in the config to enable
this option.
The second part will be to convince the DNS service provider to enable
that feature to make the ads system to work.

Thank you.


On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Matthew Dempsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Mircea Hutanu <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I am the customer of a managed DNS service that uses TinyDNS and I
>> have a zone with 16 A records for the same subdomain.
>
> Out of curiosity, why? Is it important that every client receive all
> 16 A records? tinydns's current behavior means each client will
> receive a random subset of 8 of these records.
>
>> I need to know if it's
>> possible to make the DNS servers to return the whole 16 A records and
>> what needs to be changed in the TinyDNS server setup to enable this
>> option.
>
> Not easily; it's hard coded into tinydns (specifically, tdlookup.c).
> It's not hard to change, but it would affect all queries handled by
> tinydns.
>



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Mircea