Prioritising replys

[James A Griffin]

Russell,

Just add a second RR  "IN   A   192.168.0.1"

Regards,
Jim

Russell Foster wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
>         Can any of you tell me if the following is possible. I have a
> requirement to load balance 2 outgoing mail servers. At the moment I have
> 
> post.domain.com         IN      A       192.168.0.1
>                         IN      A       192.168.0.2
> 
> and this work fine with both getting equal mail. However what would be
> nice is if I could get 192.168.0.1 to handle more of the requests due to
> it being a bigger box. I know that I can't actually say one has a higher
> priority in the zone file (like MX records) but is their a way of getting
> bind to favour one over the other so that for say every 2/3 request it
> answers .1 I am aware that should .1 die then there will be issues but I
> can get round that myself...
> 
> TIA
> 
> Rus
> 
> Russell Foster
> EMEA IT Unix Systems Administrator
> Art Technology Group (www.atg.com)
> 
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