can bind work to do load balance?

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Fri Feb 18 19:22:14 UTC 2000


In article <88ioib$d6c$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <zhouna at 21cn.com> wrote:
>hi,all
>
>can bind work the following way?
>i have three mirrored machines, their ips and domain names are:
>10.1.1.1    test.abc.com
>20.1.1.1    test.abc.com
>30.1.1.1    test.abc.com
>
>when a user access information on test.abc.com, which machine he will
>login ?

By default, BIND does round-robin, so each time someone queries, they'll
get the answers in a different order.  Most applications just use the first
one in the list.  As a result, you should expect load balancing among all
of them.

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