Round Robin option

[Kevin Darcy]

No. Why would you want to? All clients I've ever encountered work through the
address list sequentially, and even if they didn't, what does it matter if the
client does some load-balancing in addition to the nameserver's efforts?


- Kevin
Jocelyn FERRY wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am using the option Round robin on a DNS server 8.2.3 and I would like to
> know if it possible that the DNS give to a client only one address (the
> address must be shuffled with the round robin option)?
>
> for exemple if my Record is
> machine1.test.com 172.16.0.1
> machine1.test.com 172.16.0.2
> machine1.test.com 172.16.0.3
>
> The DNS would give them:
> 172.16.0.1 172.16.0.1 172.16.0.3
> then
> 172.16.0.2 172.16.0.3 172.16.0.1
> and then:
> 172.16.0.3 172.16.0.1 172.16.0.2
>
> But is it possible that the dns give them:
> 172.16.0.1
> then for an another query:
> 172.16.0.2
> and then for a third query:
> 172.16.0.3
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jocelyn
>
> Email:jocelyn.ferry at silicomp.fr
> Web: http://www.silicomp.fr