Round Robin Implementation

[Barry Margolin]

In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.990922150106.1029A-100000 at lox2.loxinfo.co.th>,
Suvicha Jaroensuk  <suvij at lox2.loxinfo.co.th> wrote:
>Dear all,
>	According to round robin feature which will simply reorder the
>responses each time, so some clients will get them in the order
>x.y.z.w,x.y.z.w2, while others will get them in the orderx.y.z.w2,x.y.z.w. 
>	Does anyone know how to make our server try all the address they
>get until they succeed in connecting, not try the first one and then give
>up ? 

Nameservers have nothing to do with this.  They just answer the question,
and it's up to the client to make effective use of all the information.
Most clients just use the first address in the list, but some (e.g. Unix
telnet and I think sendmail) try all the addresses.

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