In article <mailman.450.1252511223.14796.bind-us...@lists.isc.org>, Balanagaraju Munukutla <9ba...@sg.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi > > Anybody can help to explain the side effect of configuring the DNS name to > multiple IP addresses(Round Robin DNS). If you're planning to use it for load sharing, then the effect is very basic - requests get shared equally among the addresses irrespective of load on the target system or whether the system is offering the service or not. If one of the target systems goes down then clients which are directed to that system will either get rejected or time out, depending on the type of failure. You can mitigate this by using watchdog scripts, short TTLs and dynamic DNS updates. In short it's cheap and cheerful load balancing. A large commercial organisation might not want to rely on it, but depending on the application it can work well enough. Sam _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
