Load Balancing Question...

[David R. Conrad]

Hi,

What is the value of a weighted round robin in an originating server when any
cache re-orders things as they see fit?  

Rgds,
-drc

Kevin Darcy wrote:
> 
> As Cricket pointed out, listing an address multiple times won't buy you
> anything since BIND compresses duplicates. I think what you really want
> is *weighted* round-robin. This doesn't exist in stock BIND 8 and so far
> I've seen no indication that it'll be available in BIND 9 either. I
> implemented a very embryonic form of a "$WEIGHT" zonefile directive for
> BIND 8 a few weeks ago, but it's definitely not production code...
> 
> - Kevin