DNS querying in Round robin fashion - more details

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that is the correct result round robin is just pot luck on what ip address you get next if you have more than 1 ip address to it

"James Sebastian" <spamtrap at jncasr.ac.in> wrote in message news:c1dikd$10j3$1 at sf1.isc.org...
> >Hi all,
>
> >I am trying to set up a DNS server to query a set of IP address in
> >round robin fashion.
>
> >I expect from the google responses that round robin should be default
> >and my queries to hp110 (used in eg:) should reply answers in round
> >robin fashion..
> >OS Version:RH AS 2.1
> >Bind Version: 8.4.4
>
> Or Is it that I am doing wrong tests to test whether it is working
> properly.
>
> I do an nslookup and get the following response.
>
> [root at rhas3 named]# nslookup hp110
> Server:  rhsa3.test.com
> Address:  172.22.45.57
>
> Name:    hp110.test.com
> Addresses:  127.0.0.2, 127.0.0.3, 127.0.0.4, 127.0.0.5
>
> [root at rhas3 named]# nslookup hp110
> Server:  rhsa3.test.com
> Address:  172.22.45.57
>
> Name:    hp110.test.com
> Addresses:  127.0.0.2, 127.0.0.3, 127.0.0.4, 127.0.0.5
>
> [root at rhas3 named]# nslookup hp110
> Server:  rhsa3.test.com
> Address:  172.22.45.57
>
> Name:    hp110.test.com
> Addresses:  127.0.0.5, 127.0.0.2, 127.0.0.3, 127.0.0.4
>
>
> I expected the order should be 2,3,4,5 & then 3,4,5,2 then 4,5,2,3.
> and I am getting a different. Also a ping to hp110 also looks like
> returning a random order not a cyclic order.
>
> Regards,
>
> James
>