Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly

[Ben Rosengart]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Andre Oppermann wrote:

> Ah, well, ok. I used it extensively with bind 8.1.2 in an internal
> application in a big bank to get approx. load distribution with
> Windumb clients (they always take the first record in the list
> returned).
> 
> Anyway, if multi CNAME is no good then do:
> 
> cvsup         IN A            198.104.92.71  ; cvsup1.freebsd.org
> cvsup         IN A            205.149.189.91 ; cvsup2.freebsd.org
> ... and so on
> 
> This is legal, is it?

Not only is it legal, but I believe BIND will return all the A records
to any query, and will rotate them.

--
 Ben Rosengart

UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group
StarMedia Network, Inc.



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