Solaris gethostbyname and roun robining

[Richard Hopkins]

--On Tuesday, July 13, 2004 9:45 AM +0000 phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu wrote:

> Richard Hopkins <Richard.Hopkins at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>
>>   The Solaris man page for gethostbyname includes...
>
>> "The system will strive to put the addresses on the same sub-net as that
>> of  the caller first."
>
>> This means that round robining doesn't strictly work as you might expect
>> (or want). Does anyone know if there's a way to get Solaris not to
>> prefer  addresses on the same subnet, but to treat all as equal?
>
> Link your apps with bind-resolver ( 8 or 9  picked up from isc.org)
>

Thanks for the suggestion. The problem is that I'm not able to do this (the 
apps are Sun supplied binaries).

Cheers,

Richard