My round-robin not behaving

Cricket Liu cricket at acmebw.com
Mon Aug 23 20:05:00 UTC 1999


Joseph S D Yao <jsdy at cospo.osis.gov> wrote in message
news:<199908231850.OAA24780 at fw1-a.osis.gov>...
> > Almost confused here, Joe. :)
> > How does a reverse lookup mess up the round robin of a forward lookup.
>
> Mmmm ... could be that it's I that am confused here.  I was thinking
> that the 'nslookup' did a reverse, then a verifying forward lookup.
> But I may be thinking of other code.  Too much of it, these days.  ;-)

Yeah, nslookup just reverse maps the IP address it's using from resolv.conf.
There's no forward lookup involved.

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