Round-robin DNS - How?

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Wed Jun 14 17:54:23 UTC 2000


In article <8i89qn$1ij$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <george.jones at marconi.com> wrote:
>I need to be able to configure a BIND 8.1 (8.2 after upgrade) DNS to
>return addresses in a round-robin fashion.
>
>I have read the BIND 8.2 release document and Cricket Liu's 'New
>Features' note (which states that the feature has been available since
>BIND 4.9.2) but I am not clear how to associate the 'A' records so they
>form a round-robin pool.

Just configure multiple A records for the same name:

www IN A 1.1.1.1
    IN A 2.2.2.2
    IN A 3.3.3.3

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