Martin Simmons wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:16:33 -0400, Josh Fisher said:
>>>>>>             
>> Rather than tweaking the resolver on the client, however, it would be 
>> better to put two A records for the FQDN in DNS. The FD would then have 
>> to pull all IPs from its DNS query and favor an IP in its own subnet 
>> over the others. I doubt the FD currently does this (though it might be 
>> worth a try). It probably pulls only the first IP, in which case the IP 
>> chosen would alternate between the two because the resolver normally 
>> load-balances in round-robin fashion by changing the order of the 
>> answers. So this likely wouldn't work without a change to the FD to 
>> cause it to parse the addresses returned from the resolver and look for 
>> an IP in its own subnet, rather than just choosing the first answer.
>>     
>
> Deliberately putting unroutable IP addresses in the DNS sounds wrong to me,
> because it will break communication with the SD for all other programs that
> don't check both addresses.
>   

Why would they be unroutable? If you have two subnets that are not 
routable between each other, then it wouldn't make sense to have a DNS 
server with a single view spanning both of those subnets. Either the DNS 
server would have separate views for each of the subnets or each subnet 
would use a different DNS server. Come to think of it, you are right. 
The more I consider it, the more I am coming to believe that this is a 
DNS configuration problem, not a Bacula problem. Name resolution should 
not be returning an unroutable address.

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