[Dnsmasq-discuss] Caching issue question

[Nick]

Hi,
thank you for the recommendation. We will do the DNS workaround.

Cheers
Nick

Am 31.05.2012 12:56, schrieb Simon Kelley:
> On 31/05/12 10:48, Nick wrote:
>> sql-master.fd.corp (CNAME to 1-sql.poz.fd.corp)
>> sql-master.poz.fd.corp (CNAME to 1-sql.poz.fd.corp)
>> """
>>
>> If I do alternating requests to those both addresses with dig, it 
>> seems
>> the cache gets overwritten, because dnsmasq does a new query every 
>> time
>> I execute the dig (in an alternating way). I do normal A queries:
>>
>
> Further to my last reply, after looking at the code, changing this
> behaviour is very difficult, but a good workaround would be to make
>
> sql-master.fd.corp  CNAME sql-master.poz.fd.corp
> sql-master.poz.fd.corp CNAME 1-sql.poz.fd.corp
>
> That would cache fine (and chained CNAMES are perfectly legal.)
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon.
>
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