Hello everyone, we are using dnsmasq with local hosts file, which lists all servers providing a given service. So the hosts file looks something like this:
172.26.1.245 service1 172.26.1.246 service1 172.26.1.247 service1 172.26.1.248 service1 172.26.1.249 service2 ... In this case, dnsmasq returns a list of IP addresses when you query for service1 and the list is randomized (or shifted by one apparently, which is OK), so it serves as a primitive load balancer too, because the apps will pick the first one. All is well. But the problem arises, when there are many servers, that provide service1. Because dnsmasq returns all of the IPs, the response does not fit into a UDP packet (I assume) and some of the client apps have problem with that. For example, dig will work, but will print at the beginning: ;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode. As I wrote, some apps, that we have little control over, cannot cope with that. Now the question: Can dnsmasq be made to return only a limited number of addresses? Three would be enough, as long as they would be more or less randomly distributed in each request. Thanks for any ideas, how to solve this. Michal
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