load balance of DNS

[Dave Sparro]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Barry Margolin <barmar at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

>> One (icky) solution is to hand out more addresses for one server than the
>> otherŠ
>>
>> www.example.com  IN  A  192.168.1.1
>> www.example.com  IN  A  192.168.1.2
>> www.example.com  IN  A  192.168.1.3
>> www.example.com  IN  A  192.168.2.1
>>
>> Bind 192.168.1.[1-3] to server1 and 192.168.2.1 to server2.
>>
>> server1 should now get kinda roughly 3 time as much traffic as server2
>> (depending on number of clients, phase of moon, flavor of ice-cream, etc).
>> Horrendously icky, waste of space, etc butŠ
>
> Unless things have changed since I last checked this (many years ago),
> BIND ignores the duplicates.
>

Those aren't duplicates.  It's a single server with multiple IP
addresses in the desired ratio.

-- 
Dave