Round Robin DNS ?

Cricket Liu cricket at acmebw.com
Wed Jan 19 03:56:38 UTC 2000


> > Use BIND 8.2+'s rrset-order substatement or a sortlist.
> 
> Of course, a huge caveat applies to rrset-order and sortlist: since those
> are configuration-file constructs, every authoritative server (master and
> slaves) and every potential caching server would need to have the same
> configuration-file directives, in order to accomplish full coverage of
> the proper RRset sorting/ordering. For the Internet, of course, this is
> totally impractical, since the number of potential caching servers for
> any given public RRset is virtually limitless, and there is no central
> control of nameservers. For these reasons, the current implementation of
> RRset ordering/sorting tends to be limited to small and/or
> centrally-managed private networks.

This is just plain misleading.  rrset-order works fine with low
TTL records.

cricket

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