load balance of DNS

[Todd Snyder]

>> do you propose he specify the ratios with BIND?
>> 
>> One (icky) solution is to hand out more addresses for one server than 
>> the otherŠ
>>
>> www.example.com  IN  A  192.168.1.1
>> www.example.com  IN  A  192.168.1.2
>> www.example.com  IN  A  192.168.1.3
>> www.example.com  IN  A  192.168.2.1
>> 
>> Bind 192.168.1.[1-3] to server1 and 192.168.2.1 to server2.

>Unless things have changed since I last checked this (many years ago), BIND ignores the duplicates.

In this case, there are no dupes - I thought this at first, but noticed it's 1.2 and 2.1 after my dyslexia turned off for a moment.  

The idea is novel, if ugly - bind multiple unique addresses and the BIND daemon won't know they're all for the same physical box.  It'd work, but ug.

t.

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