dns RR method is not equal balanced?

2011-03-29 Thread Kay
Dear my friends. I use bind 8.4.7-REL on RHEL 4.4 OS and have thousands of domains. In my case ; some domain has 12 IPs but traffic of the server is not equal. The traffic of 11 IPs is same and just 1 IP is higher than others. Today, I moved the dns that is not equal to GSLB(F5) and set addres

Re: dns RR method is not equal balanced?

2011-03-29 Thread Ben Croswell
First and foremost you shouldn't be running any version of BIND 8. That is way out of date and open to a lot of exploits. That being said if by some -Ben Croswell On Mar 29, 2011 4:55 AM, "Kay" wrote: > Dear my friends. > > I use bind 8.4.7-REL on RHEL 4.4 OS and have thousands of domains. > > In

RE: dns RR method is not equal balanced?

2011-03-29 Thread Lightner, Jeff
+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Ben Croswell Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 8:56 AM To: Kay Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: dns RR method is not equal balanced? First and foremost you shouldn't be running any version of BIND 8. That is way out of date and open to a l

Re: dns RR method is not equal balanced?

2011-03-29 Thread Ben Croswell
I apologize for the cut off reply. I accidently hit send before I was complete. If by some domains have 12 ips you mean a 12 A record round robin, then it is important remember that BIND doesn't have any way of telling the load on the 12 servers. So it's load sharing not load balancing. The f5 is

Re: dns RR method is not equal balanced?

2011-03-29 Thread Tony Finch
Kay wrote: > > some domain has 12 IPs but traffic of the server is not equal. > The traffic of 11 IPs is same and just 1 IP is higher than others. If you use round-robin DNS you are relying on the clients not to muck around with the responses they get from your DNS server. If they sort them, for

Re: dns RR method is not equal balanced?

2011-03-31 Thread John Wobus
On Mar 29, 2011, at 10:49 AM, Tony Finch wrote: Kay wrote: some domain has 12 IPs but traffic of the server is not equal. The traffic of 11 IPs is same and just 1 IP is higher than others. If you use round-robin DNS you are relying on the clients not to muck around with the responses they ge

Re: dns RR method is not equal balanced?

2011-04-01 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 29.03.11 17:36, Kay wrote: > I use bind 8.4.7-REL on RHEL 4.4 OS and have thousands of domains. > > In my case ; > some domain has 12 IPs but traffic of the server is not equal. > The traffic of 11 IPs is same and just 1 IP is higher than others. some time ago I noticed that some resolvers tend