On Apr 23, 2006, at 10:21 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote:
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
On FreeBSD 6.0 with bind9, if I define a host to have multiple A
records, such that some IP addresses are listed more than once,
for example:
[ ... ]
Will those addresses listed more than once show up more often as
the "answer" to name server requests (or more often as the first
address since it lists all addresses in response alternating the
order)??
The last I'd heard, BIND implemented multiple-RR round-robin'ing
but not relative weighting if a RR is specified several times.
Too bad that they don't have the simplest implementation, which would
be just to cycle through the entries as found in the declaration
file. No explicit weighting would be necessary.
Note that you're probably never going to achieve fine-grained
control by using DNS load-balancing anyway, since client-side
caching behavior is more significant than what your side does.
Not needing fine grained control. Say I have 3:2 defined in the
declaration. Anywhere from 1:1 to 2:1 at any moment in time would be
ok... Just a general distribution.
If you actually need load-balancing to do something, you're better
off implementing it between a front-end DTS box (an Alteon or
something like that if need be) and a bunch of back-end servers
which actually implement meaningful load-balancing based on the
workload of your back-end servers...
If it were worth the money to do so I would agree...
Chad
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-Chuck
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