IP Address Rotation

[Michael Voight]

Nucleon 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???
> 
> Jeff
> 

This is called round robin, which is usually on by default in most
servers. However, sortlist changes this when local clients want to go to
local servers.

Michael