Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:20:38 -0500 (EST) From: Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org> To: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch> Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, louie@TransSys.COM, drosih@rpi.edu, jdp@polstra.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001211819470.91972-100000@penelope.skunk.org> In-Reply-To: <3888E597.9D80E8EF@pipeline.ch>
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Andre Oppermann wrote: > Ah, well, ok. I used it extensively with bind 8.1.2 in an internal > application in a big bank to get approx. load distribution with > Windumb clients (they always take the first record in the list > returned). > > Anyway, if multi CNAME is no good then do: > > cvsup IN A 198.104.92.71 ; cvsup1.freebsd.org > cvsup IN A 205.149.189.91 ; cvsup2.freebsd.org > ... and so on > > This is legal, is it? Not only is it legal, but I believe BIND will return all the A records to any query, and will rotate them. -- Ben Rosengart UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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