load balance of DNS
Matus UHLAR - fantomas
uhlar at fantomas.sk
Fri Jan 13 14:52:58 UTC 2012
On 13.01.12 22:40, MyDots.net wrote:
>Is there a good way of running the current BIND (9.7 and later) for
>load balancing a special record?
>for example,
>
>www.example.com IN A 192.168.1.1
>www.example.com IN A 192.168.1.2
kind of.
>I want the first one to get more web traffic than the second one.
With DNS you can only hint clients to send their requests by sorting
provided RRs in particular order. You can not be sure that they will
preserve the order and that they will send their requests to different
servers. In fact, most of clients take first server and will
communicate with it.
>I know other 4 or 7 layer software (like LVS and Nginx) can do that,
>but also want to know if BIND supports this.
better get such solution then...
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