Load Balancing Question...

Cricket Liu cricket at acmebw.com
Tue May 2 14:59:54 UTC 2000


> At 00:47 5/1/00 +0200, Andras Salamon wrote:
> >(Surely someone has used this approach before?  And didn't Robert Elz
> >rant against the evils of inconsistent TTLs a few years back?)
> 
> He did - in RFC2181. It states:
> "It is possible for the RRs in an RRSet to have different TTLs. No
> uses for this have been found that cannot be better accomplished
> in other ways."
> 
> and
> 
> "Consequently the use of differing TTLs in an RRSet is hereby
> depreciated, the TTLs of all RRs in an RRSet must be the same."

Moreover, newer versions of BIND will "rationalize" differing
TTLs, making them the same.

cricket

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