Advanced Round Robin Implementation

[Barry Margolin]

In article <7s7kre$21f$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,
Laurent Verhoest  <lolofarwest at my-deja.com> wrote:
>not exactly, you can improve this : you can 'trick' DNS by setting low
>TTL values for those particular records :
>
>www 1 IN x.y.z.w
>www 1 IN x.y.z.w2
>
>This way, clients will get this first IP *almost* always in the first
>place.

Why?  Round robin means that the server will alternate the order of the
records, so half the time it will return

www 1 IN x.y.z.w2
www 1 IN x.y.z.w

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