DNS Director with hostname resolving to multiple IPs

[Tim Harrison]

Hi,

The Varnish Reference Manual<https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/3.0/reference/vcl.html#the-dns-director> suggests that the DNS director can be used with a hostname that resolves to multiple IP addresses,

“DNS round robin balancing is supported. If a hostname resolves to multiple backends, the director will divide the traffic between all of them in a round-robin manner.”

And I believe the following is the correct VCL to implement this,

director test dns {
     {
           .backend = {
                .host = "hostname.with.multiple.ips";
           }
     }
     .ttl = 10s;
}

However, on compilation Varnish complains,

Backend host "hostname.with.multiple.ips": resolves to multiple IPv4 addresses.
Only one address is allowed.
Please specify which exact address you want to use, we found these:
        xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
        xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Having looked at the source code in vcc_dir_dns.c and vcc_backend.c, it seems that the hostname associated with a .host object can never resolve to more than one IP address, so it’s not clear how the functionality described in the Reference Manual can be achieved.

I think this may be a bug, can you help please?

Many thanks,

Tim Harrison



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