Can I have Inbound load balancing achieved with below settings

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Wed Nov 13 21:49:12 UTC 2013


In article <mailman.1658.1384379072.20661.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org> wrote:

> No, there is no such requirement.  The browsers are just BROKEN if
> they don't try all the offered addresses.  All browsers we were
> written after RFC 1123 was published.

That attitude should probably be moderated when interactive applications 
are involved.  It means that users will have to wait for an arbitrary 
number of timeouts before the browser can give them an error message.

The requirement is stated as a SHOULD, not a MUST. This gives latitude 
to the application designer to trade off reliability and usability.

-- 
Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA


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