dns RR method is not equal balanced?

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Tue Mar 29 14:49:58 UTC 2011


Kay <chokh at daumcorp.com> wrote:
>
> some domain has 12 IPs but traffic of the server is not equal.
> The traffic of 11 IPs is same and just 1 IP is higher than others.

If you use round-robin DNS you are relying on the clients not to muck
around with the responses they get from your DNS server. If they sort
them, for example, that will mess up the balancing. For example RFC 3484
screws it up.

Tony.
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