Round Robin Implementation

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Wed Sep 22 18:51:14 UTC 1999


> 	According to round robin feature which will simply reorder the
> responses each time, so some clients will get them in the order
> x.y.z.w,x.y.z.w2, while others will get them in the orderx.y.z.w2,x.y.z.w. 
> 	Does anyone know how to make our server try all the address they
> get until they succeed in connecting, not try the first one and then give
> up ? 
> 
> suvicha j.

The server has to be programmed to do this.  There is nothing that can
be done in DNS to make this happen.[1]

[1] This is approximately the 1,573d instance of this answer in the
archives of this mailing list.[2]
[2] So I made the number up.  ;-)  It's close.

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