round robin wierdness (how well does round robin load balance?)

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9um645$c5g at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Avery <daemon2k at yahoo.com> wrote:
>My question is this:
>
>Is round robin effective for short duration bursts of traffic?  If it
>is is there any DNS related issue that could be affecting/causing what
>I'm seeing?

Round robin is effective if there will be many clients distributed all
around the Internet.  Individual client machines, browsers, or proxies may
do some local caching of responses, so you're likely to see some skewing if
all the traffic is coming from a single traffic generator machine.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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