Round-robin DNS - How?
Barry Margolin
barmar at genuity.net
Thu Jun 15 00:33:27 UTC 2000
In article <200006142232.IAA00783 at bsdi.dv.isc.org>,
<Mark.Andrews at nominum.com> wrote:
>
>> I need to be able to configure a BIND 8.1 (8.2 after upgrade) DNS to
>> return addresses in a round-robin fashion.
>
> I would upgrade to the current release, BIND 8.2.2-P5.
> See http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security-19991108.html
> for why.
This is good advice, but the answer to how to configure round-robin is the
same whether you upgrade or not.
Just put multiple entries with the same name and type, e.g.
hostname IN A 1.2.3.4
hostname IN A 5.6.7.8
hostname IN A 9.10.11.12
and BIND will automatically shuffle them.
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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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