On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 08:18 -0600, James Richardson wrote:
> Ian,
> 
> Have you had the chance to review this additional debug output?

Oh right, yes, I didn't reply yet.


> Is this expected? I'm curious as to why automount is pulling the entire
> RR set. I'm not sure if I know of any other application that does
> "stuff" to all of the results. As it is, we have our DNS infrastructure
> configured to sort/order the returned query to balance the RR
> efficiently. 

autofs doesn't "pull" anything, it does a DNS name lookup that returns
all the IP addresses corresponding to the given name.

But, when multiple addresses are returned, autofs uses them as though
they were multiple names and checks to see if they are up and what the
response to an NULL procedure ping is so it can put them in least loaded
order, assuming the servers are at the same proximity.

That's the way autofs selects the machine to mount from.

I don't know how you can optimize you're round robin DNS entry with this
in mind.

Ian


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