round-robin list size problem?

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Wed Dec 22 01:43:37 UTC 2004


At 09:42 PM 12/20/2004, Blazier, Michael J wrote:
>Does anyone know if there is a maximum number of entries allowed in a
>round-robin A record list?
>Has anyone seen an issue where a round-robin list with a large number (30+)
>of entries does not round-robin?
>
>Michael Blazier

Yes. pool.ntp.org has that problem and was solved by reordering the
full list of A records every few hours and offering only a limited number
of them into the DNS in order spread the load on the participating ntp
servers.

Danny




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