Roundrobin DNS

[kollross]

I'm trying to think of a "clean" way of implementing a round robin DNS option.

What I have so far in my head is as follows:

We have 3 servers: login1.domain.com, login2.domain.com, login3.domain.com. All of these would have A/ptr records and show up in the Managed Records section.

If I wanted to create a round robin dns entry for "login.domain.com" and point it to the above three servers,I would then need to create 3 additional A or CNAME records in the "records" section and give a user edit access to those records. If login2 becomes unavailable, they would need to edit the "login.domain.com" A/CNAME records that corresponds to login2. Because, in this case they can't create "records" only edit existing ones, they would need to rename the record from login.domain.com to something like login-offline.domain.com to remove it from the round robin.

Anyone know of cleaner solution, or a way of "disabling" the record with out deleting it?

[peteeckel]

Hm ... set the status of the record to 'inactive'?

Depending on how you configure the authoritatove name server from NetBox that should do it, and it only requires write permissions.

[kollross]

Thanks, I completely overlook the status option. For some reason I was looking for a check box.