Round Robin with 1 and 1?

segedunum · Feb 10, 2008

Hi All,

Is anyone successfully doing round robin DNS with 1and1 - with multiple A records for the same domain/subdomain? We're doing this for our web hosting set up (it's a subdomain of our main domain name we want multiple A records for). For some bizarre reason it seems as though they cannot do it, although admittedly there is someone else in our company who is trying to do this through the 1and1 control panel and I haven't tried this yet.

However, I got the following e-mail from 1and1 support:

Please be informed that with our current system you are only allowed to set up a single A Record for each domain. There is no other way than that but you could specify multiple name servers and mail servers. I hope this helps a bit.

Surely that can't be right? Having multiple A records for a domain/subdomain in a round robin fashion is a pretty basic piece of DNS functionality, and I can't imagine they would disallow it for any legitimate misuse and support reasons. CNAMEs are worse.

Please tell me someone has got the wrong end of the stick here, otherwise this is enough to start transferring our domains to someone who knows what they're talking about. I've not been impressed with 1and1 in anything they do, so I've generally avoided having too do much with them.

Thanks,

David

retired_member16 · Feb 10, 2008

Im not sure that you will find many people here with domains @ 1+1 as the website/service is very poor.

segedunum · Feb 11, 2008

firestars said:
Im not sure that you will find many people here with domains @ 1+1 as the website/service is very poor.

I'm not surprised in all honesty. I haven't had much to do with 1and1, other than using their e-mail a while ago, but below is their apparent reason for not allowing you to create more than one A record for a domain and create a round robin set up through their control panel:

It cannot be that a certain domain or subdomain can have a multiple A Record in the since that this IP will Identify the the name itself or the location of the file/website. "All computers across the internet are assigned a unique identifier called an IP address. They are used like street addresses so other computers can find them".

I'm having difficulty digesting that this was sent by a web and domain hosting company. His solution for this is even more baffling:

If you want to have more than one server, the best way is to create a subdomain and assign each of the subdomain it own IP then add that subdomain as the DNS of your domain. You can add up to 4 name server for each of the domain name.

I just don't think he 'gets' round-robin DNS.

I think we'll be getting a plan of action together so that these domains can be migrated to another hosting company.