Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 19:13:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@blaise.ibp.fr> Cc: Network Coordinator <nc@ai.net>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Load Balancing/Sharing w/ FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950629191032.15174C-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <199506292224.AAA06032@blaise.ibp.fr>
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On Fri, 30 Jun 1995, Ollivier Robert wrote: > > 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. NS records? Don't you mean A records? I know that named will do round-robin ordering on any item with multiple records. Tom
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