Load Balancing

[Dave Sparro]

BIND will allow you to return multiple answers to a single query, and
it will even cycle the order in which the multiple answers are listed.
 It is up to the application that recieves the answer(s) to determine
what to do.  It is common for an application to use only the first
answer it recieves.  When the end users are spread out on the Internet
the general effect is traffic being sent roughly equally to each of
the returned IP addresses.

The con configuration is simply to give the hostname multiple A records:

www   IN   A   10.1.1.1
www   IN   A   10.2.2.2
www   IN   A   10.3.3.3
...
www   IN   A   10.222.222.222

On 2/27/06, Nitin Bhagnari <nitinbhagnari at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I wanted to know if it was possible for a DNS to
> return different A records so as to load balance
> between a set of servers (I have a set of web servers
> and I want different web server addresses to be
> returned each time)
>
> Please provide with a configuration example if this is
> feasible.
>
> Many Thanks.
>
> Nitin
>
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