name with multiple IPs, is IP on local segment used?

[Kevin Darcy]

I believe most client resolvers are not this smart.

Note, however, that you can use the "sortlist" feature in BIND to sort
the addresses based on the source address of the query. The downside is
that you would have to configure the sortlist definitions in
*every* nameserver that might be answering these clients, otherwise
nameservers answering from their caches without those sortlist
definitions will "round-robin" the answers they give to the clients, thus
mucking up your careful plans...


- Kevin

Stephen Mathezer wrote:

> I have a multi-homed machine, with an entry for each of its interfaces
> in DNS, all with the same name.  If I try to connect to that machine
> by name, will I always be talking to the interface that is on the same
> segment as me?
>
> I guess this is more of a client side question, what I am really
> trying to ask is: Are the DNS resolvers on various OSes smart enough
> to pick the closest ip address when a name resolves to multiple
> addresses?