On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Matthew Pounsett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 30-Oct-2008, at 13:34 , Bryan Irvine wrote: > >> Creative I must admit, but doesn't work. Is there another way to get >> this working perhaps with? > > > Even if you can get BIND to hand out more than one identical record (I > wouldn't expect that to work), the balance of load is dependant on the > clients' algorithms for choosing an A record.. and the clients may not do > what you want or expect. Some clients are semi-random, some rotate through > the A records they get, and some cache and keep the first one they pick.
Yeah but is it even possible to give more than one identical record? > I don't believe there's any reliable way to do this kind of traffic > engineering with DNS. If you need to shift load around in very specific > ways, then you should look at actual load balancing hardware/software to do > the job. Yeah he really does need a real load balancer. He's just trying this as a temporary solution. -B
