Multiple Address record howto

[mazin at davlin.co.in]

Hi,

Thanks, Whether rrset-order works out with BIND 8.

Regards,
Mazin

> In article <blburv$1nrj$1 at sf1.isc.org>,  <mazin at davlin.co.in> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I am using bind since from past two years.
> >Is there any facility to have multiple address record for same domain
> >so that the request gets balanced among multiple servers.
> >Ex:
> >
> >test.com    A     192.168.1.2
> >test.com    A     192.168.1.3
> >test.com    A     192.168.1.4
> >test.com    A     192.168.1.5
> 
> That's the way to do it.
> 
> >So that the first request resolves to 192.168.1.2 and second request to
> >192.168.1.3 and so on......
> 
> Every request returns *all* of the addresses, with the order rotated each
> time in round-robin fashion (you can change this default with named.conf
> options).  Most applications either just use the first address in the
> response or try them in order, so you should get the load balancing
> behavior you want.
> 
> Look up "round robin" in the DNS & BIND book.
> 
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