modifying bind to do weighted round-robin

[Jay C Austad]

We are currently using, and have tried other distributed director type products, but they are not nearly as stable as bind is.  We need something simple and reliable.  In fact, some of these products have a separate daemon that runs to make sure the nameserver process doesn't die.

All we need is BIND with some sort of nice weighted round robin type functionality.

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Jay Austad
Network Administrator
CBS Marketwatch
612.817.1271
jaustad at bigcharts.com
http://cbs.marketwatch.com
http://www.bigcharts.com






-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Margolin [mailto:barmar at bbnplanet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 6:07 PM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
Subject: Re: modifying bind to do weighted round-robin


In article <6C09D9B03136D311839800902762696501C7868D at mpls.marketwatch.com>,
Jay C Austad  <JCA at BigCharts.com> wrote:
>I really need to get bind to do weighted round-robin.

Why does it have to be BIND?  If you're doing this for marketwatch.com, I
think they should be be able to afford a Distributed Director or Local
Director, which supports this as well as other useful features like
automatic failover if any of the servers die.

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