IP Address Rotation

[Barry Margolin]

In article <7kblb6$o9u at news.uic.com>, Nucleon <jeffd at uic.com> 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???

You upgrade to a modern version of BIND.  Round-robin was added in 4.9.x
(where x is at most 3), which has been out for over 4 years.

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