Round Robin

[Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)]

In a short answer... No.

DNS is only for translating a host-name into an IP address.
It can return an IP address as a round-robin, regardless of whether the 
server on that address is up, down, unavailable, non-existent.

What you're asking for in essence is clustering.
You'll be needing something else in your software like Heartbeat/Nagios 
to monitor nodes status and take action based on when a node goes down 
to take it out of the cluster.

Andy.


Fabio Silva wrote:
> Hi all, i have a question about round robin, if a node goes down, the
> DNS will send the packets to that node or DNS can understand that,
> that node goes down??
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> Is there any other solution to do load balance like round robin?
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> Regards,
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