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Date:      Fri, 30 Jun 1995 00:24:56 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert)
To:        nc@ai.net (Network Coordinator)
Cc:        tom@sdf.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Load Balancing/Sharing w/ FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199506292224.AAA06032@blaise.ibp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950629002711.5303F-100000@aries.ai.net> from "Network Coordinator" at Jun 29, 95 00:28:25 am

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> DNS servers will just sequentially cycle through a list of servers, it 
> won't intelligently find the least busy machine. Is there a way to do it 
> intelligently with DNS?

Depends on how the resolver is written but generally the NS records are used
in "random" order but it will use the fastest one after a while.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT     -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-     roberto@FreeBSD.ORG
FreeBSD keltia 2.0-BUILT-19950503 #3: Wed May  3 19:53:04 MET DST 1995



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