Load Balancing depending on a weight

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Fri Sep 9 08:47:45 UTC 2005


On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 10:30:07AM +0200,
 Guillaume <gwouite at gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 28 lines which said:

> Is it possible to create a load balancing between 2 servers with a
> weight ?

Not within the DNS. The proper DNS solution is the SRV record (RFC
2782 or read http://www.nongnu.org/ruli/), which provides exactly what
you want, but almost no Web browser or proxy/cache implement it :-(

> Guillaume. (From FRANCE = poor English)

Some people in France do actually speak english quite well :-)



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