Round robin load distribution among servers does not work properly

[Mark Andrews]

In message <96c8e9660904071112p557840a4kfd85120d7c2755ab at mail.gmail.com>, Mallappa Pallakke
 writes:
> Hi Mark/Kevin,
> 
>     I did the changes you suggested and it worked fine.
> 
>     Thanks a lot for all your help.
> 
>     Regarding round-robin load sharing instead of random, I have
> planned to have a dynamic update (nsupdate) triggered at realtime when
> ever a server goes down or comes up so that there will not be any
> possibility of putting double load on any server.
> 
>    My only challenge is to load the traffic on newly coming up server
> equal to other servers during high traffic. I need to do some
> controlled distribution of load (more on new server than others untill
> it comes close to other servers!).
> 
>    Please tell me if it has got any problem.

	If you need that much control you really need something
	other than named or you need a extra server.  The DNS really
	isn't designed to, nor is it capable of, distributing load
	so precisely.

	Mark
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