From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 21 15: 8:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from penelope.skunk.org (penelope.skunk.org [208.133.204.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68C6B155B1 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:08:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@penelope.skunk.org) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by penelope.skunk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA92841; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:20:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:20:38 -0500 (EST) From: Ben Rosengart To: Andre Oppermann Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, louie@TransSys.COM, drosih@rpi.edu, jdp@polstra.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly In-Reply-To: <3888E597.9D80E8EF@pipeline.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Andre Oppermann wrote: > Ah, well, ok. I used it extensively with bind 8.1.2 in an internal > application in a big bank to get approx. load distribution with > Windumb clients (they always take the first record in the list > returned). > > Anyway, if multi CNAME is no good then do: > > cvsup IN A 198.104.92.71 ; cvsup1.freebsd.org > cvsup IN A 205.149.189.91 ; cvsup2.freebsd.org > ... and so on > > This is legal, is it? Not only is it legal, but I believe BIND will return all the A records to any query, and will rotate them. -- Ben Rosengart UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message