load balance of DNS

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 13.01.12 22:40, MyDots.net wrote:
>Is there a good way of running the current BIND (9.7 and later) for 
>load balancing a special record?
>for example,
>
>www.example.com  IN  A  192.168.1.1
>www.example.com  IN  A  192.168.1.2

kind of.

>I want the first one to get more web traffic than the second one.

With DNS you can only hint clients to send their requests by sorting 
provided RRs in particular order. You can not be sure that they will 
preserve the order and that they will send their requests to different 
servers. In fact, most of clients take first server and will 
communicate with it.

>I know other 4 or 7 layer software (like LVS and Nginx) can do that, 
>but also want to know if BIND supports this.

better get such solution then...

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