Re: more than 8 answers

one trick is to use a CNAME in the middle

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 16:46, Mircea Hutanu <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>