IP Address Rotation
Barry Margolin
barmar at bbnplanet.com
Thu Jun 17 21:50:14 UTC 1999
In article <7kblb6$o9u at news.uic.com>, Nucleon <jeffd at uic.com> wrote:
>Certain nameservers on the Internet seem to resolve a name to a group
>of addresses in a "random" manner. For ex, if you resolve
>"www.microsoft.com" you get a bunch of addresses that keep changing
>order. If I code in multiple A records on my server, it always
>returns queries in the same order, how do you tell it to return
>addresses randomly???
You upgrade to a modern version of BIND. Round-robin was added in 4.9.x
(where x is at most 3), which has been out for over 4 years.
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