Relying on round-robin has short-comings: e.g. getaddrinfo() which
obsoletes gethostbyname() orders results. See [1].
-JP
[1]
http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2012/01/03/getaddrinfo-with-round-robin-dns-and-happy-eyeballs/
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On 25/07/12 21:21, James Brown wrote:
Hello,
I've had a hard time finding any info about this on the internet.
I have a round robin hostname set up in my hosts file, and my
resolv.conf is set to dnsmasq. Nslookup queries come back correctly
(it shows all four ips) but when I ping the name it
Need more information about the `ping` implementation you are using.
Does it re-lookup the name for each echo request? Usually it will
look up the name once and use that single address for all outgoing
ICMP packets.
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 3:21 PM, James Brown james.br...@ipsoft.com wrote:
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From: richardvo...@gmail.com [mailto:richardvo...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 5:08 PM
To: James Brown
Cc: dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Round Robin ping
Need more information about the `ping` implementation you are using.
Does it re
Hello,
I've had a hard time finding any info about this on the internet.
I have a round robin hostname set up in my hosts file, and my resolv.conf is
set to dnsmasq. Nslookup queries come back correctly (it shows all four ips)
but when I ping the name it only pings the first one listed. Is
